The Western Union then put them on private lines. Theodore Puskas, of Budapest, Hungary, was the first man to suggest a telephone exchange, and soon after exchanges were established. The telephone department was put in the hands of Hamilton McK. Twombly, Vanderbilt's ablest son-in-law, who made a success of it. The Bell company, of Boston, also started an exchange, and the fight was on, the Western Union pirating the Bell receiver, and the Boston company pirating the Western Union transmitter. About this time I wanted to be taken care of. I threw out hints of this desire. Then Mr.英文原著 · 《Edison, His Life and Inventions》
By the terms of this treaty the Western Union agreed--
(1) To admit that Bell was the original inventor. (2) To admit that his patents were valid. (3) To retire from the telephone business. The Bell Company, in return for this surrender, agreed--
(1) To buy the Western Union telephone system. (2) To pay the Western Union a royalty of twenty per cent on all telephone rentals. (3) To keep out of the telegraph business. This agreement, which was to remain in force for seventeen years, was a master-stroke of diplomacy on the part of the Bell Company. It was the Magna Charta of the telephone.英文原著 · 《The History of the Telephone》
On the northwestern plains, from the boundary provinces of British America (western Manitoba, Assiniboia and Alberta), and throughout the Upper Missouri region, southward through western Nebraska to western Kansas and to the eastern foothills of central Colorado. It is also mentioned by Howell (Cat. of Oregon, Washington and Idaho plants), as occurring beyond the Rocky Mountain divide in Idaho and Washington, which is probable, but no specimens have been seen.英文原著 · 《The North American Species of》
[Footnote e: This may have been true in 1832, but is not so in 1874, when great cities like Chicago and San Francisco have sprung up in the Western States. But as yet the Western States exert no powerful influence on American society. - Translator's Note.]英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
One of the first Western businessmen into Russia after the wall fell.美剧 · 《Billions》
You sure about that? I've seen a lot of Westerns.美剧 · 《Billions》
Blubber was the oil that lighted the Western world.美剧 · 《Billions》
You know how in Shane. shit, in every Western worth its sand. the main dude can escape, ride off if he wants, but then decides to stay and fight?美剧 · 《Billions》