"Kilo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lighting has become more and more neglected because it is the most troublesome. The mean price of the kilo is 1.6 francs. As the carcel hour consumes 42 grammes, it consequently amounts ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 • Various
... is supplied by a small air cooled petrol or gasoline motor developing eight horse-power, and coupled direct to a 2-kilo watt alternator. At one end of the shaft of the latter the disk discharger is mounted, its function being to break up the train of waves into groups of waves, so as to impart a musical sound to the note produced in the receiver. ...
— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot
... peel down as far as the law allows. This is going to be real work, girl—no fooling. It'd help a lot if this outfit were sending out a few thousand kilo-franks instead ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith
... reached Kilo, far across the Copper River, with the Blue Mountains in sight, and from there less confusing directions to follow. He had been lucky. He had passed the wreck of the freight-train upon which he had ridden from Adrian; ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey |
