The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1861 |
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Page xv - TECHNOLOGY, having the triple organization of a Society of Arts, a Museum or Conservatory of Arts, and a School of Industrial Science and Art.
Page vi - Highgate, who, by a happy coincidence, had also his telescope directed to the great luminary at the same instant. It may be, therefore, that these two gentlemen have actually witnessed the process of feeding the Sun, by the fall of meteoric matter ; but however this may be, it is a remarkable circumstance, that the observations at Kew show that on the very day, and at the very hour and minute of this unexpected and curious phenomenon, a moderate but marked magnetic disturbance took place ; and a...
Page 326 - I infer that a tribe of savages, to whom the use of iron was unknown, made a long sojourn in this region ; and I am reminded of a large Indian mound which I saw in St.
Page 345 - FUNGI. Outlines of British Fungology, containing Characters of above a Thousand Species of Fungi, and a Complete List of all that have been described as Natives of the British Isles. By the Rev. MJ BERKELEY, MA, FLS Demy 8vo, 24 Coloured Plates, 30».
Page 120 - ... discharge of the battery was finally sent through a tube, whose platinum wires were terminated by two small balls of carbon : a glow was first produced ; but on heating a portion of the tube containing a stick of caustic potash, the positive ball sent out a luminous protrusion, which subsequently detached itself from the ball ; the tube becoming instantly afterwards filled with the most brilliant strata. There can be no doubt...
Page 415 - The Motions of Fluids and Solids relative to the Earth's Surface ; comprising Applications to the Winds and the Currents of the Ocean.
Page 117 - Rive. 6. Into a circuit of 20 cells a large coil of copper wire was introduced, and when the current was interrupted, a bright spark, due to the passage of the extra current, was obtained. The brightness and loudness of the spark were augmented when a core of soft iron was placed within the coil. The disruption of the current took place between the poles of an electro-magnet; and when the latter was excited, an extraordinary augmentation of the loudness of the spark was noticed. This effect was first...
Page 133 - I believe I represent the received idea of the gravitating force aright, in saying that it is a simple attractive force exerted between any two or all the particles or masses of matter, at every sensible distance, but with a strength varying inversely as the square of the distance.