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" I am busy just now again on electro-magnetism, and think I have got hold of a good thing, but can't say. It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I may at last pull up. "
A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of ... - Page 237
by Florian Cajori - 1899 - 322 pages
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 17

Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1869 - 658 pages
...Pharmacopeia." Three months later he thanks him for the last edition of the Pharmacopoeia, and says, " I am busy just now again on electro-magnetism, and...that, after all my labour, I may at last pull up. I think I know why metals are magnetic when in motion, though not (generally) when at rest." Nov. 29....
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The Life and Letters of Faraday, Volume 2

Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 514 pages
...After this he prepared fresh apparatus. Writing to his friend E. Phillips, September 23, he says, ' I am busy just now again on electro-magnetism, and...that, after all my labour, I may at last pull up.' September 24 was the third day of his experiments. He began paragraph 21 by trying to find the effect...
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The Life and Letters of Faraday, Volume 2

Bence Jones - 1870 - 512 pages
...After this he prepared fresh apparatus. Writing to his friend E. Phillips, September 23, he says, 4 1 am busy just now again on electro-magnetism, and think...that, after all my labour, I may at last pull up.' September 24 was the third day of his experiments. He began paragraph 21 by trying to find the effect...
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The Life and Letters of Faraday, Volume 2

Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 522 pages
...Phillips, September 23, he says, ' I am — busy just now again on electro-magnetism, and think II have got hold of a good thing, but can't say. It may...that, after all my labour, I may at last pull up.' September 24 was the third day of his experiments. He began paragraph 21 by trying to find the effect...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 9

1888 - 910 pages
...now again on electromagnetism, and think I have got hold of a good thing, but can't вау It may bo a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I may at last pull up." This was his first successful experiment. In nine more days of experimenting he Bad arrived at the...
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Nature, Volume 44

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1891 - 900 pages
...am busy just now again with electro-magnetism, and think I have got hold of a good thing, but cannot say ; it may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last haul up." We now know that it was a very big rish indeed. Lord Rayleigh proceeded to say that...
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the ..., Volume 13

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1893 - 750 pages
...am busy just now again with electro-magnetism, and think I have got hold of a good thing, but cannot say ; it may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last haul up." We now know that it was a very big fish indeed. Lord Rayleigh proceeded to say that...
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Michael Faraday: His Life and Work

Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1898 - 352 pages
...papers (ie a paper and appendix) with it, for though not chemical I think you will like to have them. 1 am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism, and think...fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up. I think I know why metals are magnetic when in motion though not (generally) when at rest. We think...
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A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of ...

Florian Cajori - 1899 - 344 pages
...Faraday persisted. In August, 1831, lie took a ring of soft iron (Fig. 17), and wound coils A and I3 around it. Coil B was connected with a galvanometer....magnetic contact at N and S was made or broken, there was magnetic motion at the indicating helix [galvanometer] — the effect being, as in former cases,...
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A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of ...

Florian Cajori - 1899 - 340 pages
...significance of this. On September 23 he says in a letter, " I am, busy just now again on electromagnetisni, and think I have got hold of a good thing, but can't...Fig. 18. " Every time the magnetic contact at N and 8 was made or broken, there was magnetic motion at the indicating helix [galvanometer] — the effect...
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