NOUN
- English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
How To Use William Henry In A Sentence
- The portrayal of the wealthy, plantation-born William Henry Harrison as a plain-spoken general who desired only a simple life in a log cabin with plenty of hard cider is cited as evidence that stories need not be true to be effective.
- His son, James Willard Maxwell was also a banker and established a million-dollar trust fund for William Henry Gates III.
- William Henry Gates, Jr. was a prominent corporate lawyer while Mary Maxwell was a board member of First Interstate Bank and Pacific Northwest Bell.
- William Henry Gates III left Harvard University as an undergraduate to write software for the earliest personal computers.
- There is a flourishing and very pretty town situated at the junction of the Richelieu river with the St. Laurence, formerly called Sorel, now called Fort William Henry. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
- Beck as the exhibit demonstrates was also a keen collector of outdoor photography, including work by his American contemporary William Henry Jackson and, most impressively, by Vittorio Sella, a younger Italian climber-photographer whose large-format work has rarely been equaled by anyone in the medium. He Cut a Fresh Path in Mountain Photography
- At William Henry Harrison's March inauguration in 1841, he stepped to the podium without hat or overcoat, under a louring sky, his trouserlegs flapping in the bitter wind, and delivered the longest address on record.
- William Henry Bowker was a Blackburn grocer, but after learning to drive for the army during the First World War he seized the opportunities offered by the new age of motor transport and started a car dealership.
- The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. —William Henry Gates.
- Several items in the room belonged to William Henry Harrison: the bookcase, his well-used wooden bootjack, his walking stick, and the portrait of his wife Anna Symmes Harrison.