 | 1897 - 916 pages
...large Induction coll stood mounted on a stand on wheels so as to follow the positions of the eye-end of the telescope, together with a battery of several...especially of specimens of pure metals, lined Its walls. The observatory became a meeting place where terrestrial chemistry was brought Into direct touch with... | |
 | 1900 - 598 pages
...delicacy with the resolving power at our command. Then it was that an astronomical observatory began, 39 for the first time, to take on the appearance of a...especially of specimens of pure metals, lined its walls. The observatory became a meeting place where terrestrial chemistry was brought into direct touch with... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1909 - 614 pages
...a lens convex or concave in one direction only, and flat, and so having no action on the light, in a direction at right angles to the former one. . ....reception of a larger telescope made by Sir HOWARD GRUDB, at the expense of a legacy to the Royal Society, and which was placed in my hands on loan by... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 846 pages
...of a lens convex or concave in one direction only, and flat, and so having no action on the light In a direction at right angles to the former one. * ยป...especially of specimens of pure metals, lined Its walls. In 1S70 my observatory was enlarged from a dome of 12 feet in diameter to a drum having a diameter of... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 850 pages
...spectrum. We soon found, to our dismay, how easily the comparison lines might become instrumeutally shifted, and so be no longer strictly fiducial. As...In 1870 my observatory was enlarged from a dome of 12 feet in diameter to a drum having a diameter of 18 feet. This alteration had been made for the reception... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 840 pages
...batteries, giving forth noxious gases, were arranged outside one of the windows; a large induction coll stood mounted on a stand on wheels so as to follow...In 1870 my observatory was enlarged from a dome of 12 feet in diameter to a drum having a diameter of 18 feet. This alteration had been made for the reception... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 856 pages
...of a lens convex or concave In one direction only, and flat, and so having no action on the light in a direction at right angles to the former one. * *...In 1870 my observatory was enlarged from a dome of 12 feet In diameter to a drum having a diameter of 18 feet. This alteration had been made for the reception... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 848 pages
...of a lens convex or concave in one direction only, and flat, and so having no action on the light in a direction at right angles to the former one. * *...pure metals, lined its walls. In 1870 my observatory w;is enlarged from a dome of 12 feet in diameter to a drum having a diameter of 18 feet. This alteration... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...large induction coil stood mounted on a stand on wheels so as to follow the positions of the eye-end of the telescope, together with a battery of several...especially of specimens of pure metals, lined its walls. The observatory became a meeting place where -terrestrial chemistry was brought into direct touch with... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...large induction coil stood mounted on a stand on wheels so as to follow the positions of the eye-end of the telescope, together with a battery of several...Bunsen burners, vacuum tubes, and bottles of chemicals . . . lined its walls. The observatory became a meeting place where terrestrial chemistry was brought... | |
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Then it was that an astronomical observatory began, for the first time, to take on the appearance of a laboratory. Primary batteries, giving forth noxious gases, were arranged outside one of the windows; a large induction coil stood mounted on a stand... 
