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Page 424 - Committee, a position which he held up to the time of his death. In May of 1898 he was elected to the Board of Editors of The Tech.
Page 36 - Davy, showing him a letter, said: "Pepys, what am I to do, here is a letter from a young man named Faraday; he has been attending my lectures, and wants me to give him employment at the Royal Institution. What can I do?" "Do?" replied Pepys, "put him to wash bottles; if he is good for anything he will do it directly, if he refuses he is good for nothing.
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Page 287 - Chemistry, Medicine, Surgery, and the Allied Sciences. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of other Sciences.
Page 196 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an. absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical! matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 394 - On increasing the pressure to two atmospheres, the previously feeble luminosity is very markedly augmented, whilst at ten atmospheres' pressure, the light emitted by a jet about one inch long is amply sufficient to enable the observer to read a newspaper at a distance of two feet from the flame, and this without any reflecting surface behind the flame. Examined by the spectroscope, the spectrum of this flame is bright and perfectly continuous from red to violet.
Page 37 - But facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact, and always cross-examined an assertion. So when I questioned Mrs. Marcet's book by such little experiments as I could find means to perform, and found it true to the facts as I could understand them, I felt that I had got hold of an anchor in chemical knowledge, and clung fast to it.
Page 38 - Professor Auguste De la Rive, father of our present excellent De la Rive, had investigated those sounding flames and had applied to them an explanation which completely accounted for a class of sounds discovered by De la Eive himself.
Page 190 - He tests this measure in all possible ways, to assure himself that no error can arise from its employment. He places in the course of one and the same current a series of cells with electrodes of different sizes, some of them plates of platinum, others merely platinum wires, and collects the gas liberated on each distinct pair of electrodes. He finds the quantity of gas to be the same for all. Thus he concludes that when the same quantity of electricity is caused to pass through a series of cells...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The American Journal of Science and Arts Museum of Comparative Zoology--Biodiversity Heritage Library digitization project |
| Publisher | S. Converse, 1868 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
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