 | American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 pages
...around a bar of soft iron about sixty pounds in weight, and properly bent into a horseshoe form, Prof. Henry has been enabled to produce a magnetic force...celebrated Oriental impostor in his iron coffin."* In his "quantity" magnet Henry sought to reduce the resistance to a minimum, and so to obtain a very... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1894 - 810 pages
...around a bar of soft iron about sixty pounds in weight, and properly bent into a horseshoe form, Prof. Henry has been enabled to produce a magnetic force...celebrated Oriental impostor in his iron coffin."* In his "quantity" magnet Henry sought to reduce the resistance to a minimum, and so to obtain a very... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1874 - 640 pages
...as many separate coils around a bar of soft iron about 60 pounds in weight and properly bent into a horse-shoe form, Professor Henry has been enabled...the miraculous suspension of the celebrated oriental imposter in his iron coffin, "f The first Electro-magnetic Engine. — Among his ingenious applications... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1879 - 588 pages
...enthusiasm, remarked : " Professor Henry has been enabled to produce a magnetic force which totally eclipses every other in the whole annals of magnetism...celebrated oriental impostor in his iron coffin." t But to return to his investigations of 1830, Henry, after finding that the highest attractive power... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1880 - 554 pages
...as many separate coils around a bar of soft iron about 60 pounds in weight and properly bent into a horseshoe form, Professor Henry has been enabled to...celebrated oriental impostor in his iron coffin." * The first Electro-magnetic Engine. — Among his ingenious applications of the new power, Henry's... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1880 - 548 pages
...as many separate coils around a bar of soft iron about 60 pounds in weight and properly bent into a horseshoe form, Professor Henry has been enabled to...every other in the whole annals of magnetism; and uo parallel is to be found since the miraculous suspension of the celebrated oriental impostor in his... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1881 - 834 pages
...as many separate coils around a bar of soft iron about 60 pounds in weight and properly bent into a horseshoe form, Professor Henry has been enabled to...celebrated oriental impostor in his iron coffin."* The first Electro-magnetic Engine. — Among his ingenious applications of the new power, Henry's invention... | |
 | 1881 - 856 pages
...as many separate coils around a bar of soft iron about 60 pounds in weight and properly bent into a horseshoe form, Professor Henry has been enabled to...celebrated oriental impostor in his iron coffin." * The first Electro-magnetic Engine. — Among his ingenious applications of the new power, Henry's... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1881 - 850 pages
...separate coils around a bar nf soft iron about 60 pounds in weight and properly bent into a horsshoe form, Professor Henry has been enabled to produce...force which completely eclipses every other in the who] annals of magnetism; and no parallel is to be found since th> miraculous suspension of the celebrated... | |
 | Edward Nicoll Dickerson - 1885 - 76 pages
...writing of them, says: " Professor Henry has been enabled to produce a " magnetic force which totally eclipses every other " in the whole annals of magnetism;...celebrated oriental impostor in his iron " coffin, "f Without them we could not have the * See Appendix, Note S. f See Appendix Note T. telegraph, or... | |
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Professor Henry has been enabled to produce a magnetic force which completely eclipses every other in the whole annals of magnetism; and no parallel is to be found since the miraculous suspension of the celebrated oriental impostor in his iron coffin. 
