Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 21Metcalf and Company, 1886 Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell. |
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Page 539 - University, with a Reprint of the Catalogues of 1674, 1682, and 1700, 8vo, 1865, pp. 67. This little book is full of materials interesting to antiquaries and to graduates of the College. 3. Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard College, 8vo, Vol. I., 1873, pp. 618 ; Vol. II., 1881, pp. 557 ; Vol. III., 1885, pp.
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Page 267 - It will be seen from the above statement, that in 1870, several years before the telephones now in use were invented, a receiver was devised, constructed, and tried, which consisted of a flexible iron diaphragm, supported at the edges and replacing the armature of an electro-magnet.
Page 543 - ... which often enables the systematist to divine much further than he can perceive in the tracing of relationships. Upon this, in direct reference to Fries, and with a use of the term that seems to correlate it with " insight," Tuckerman remarks : " So great is the value of Habit in minds fully qualified to apprehend and appreciate its subtleties, that such minds may not only anticipate what the microscope is to reveal, but help us to understand its revelations.
Page 306 - I. Let us suppose that there are four girls at school, Anna, Bertha, Cora, and Dora, and that some one had observed that (1.) Whenever either Anna or Bertha (or both) remained at home, Cora was at home ; and (2.) When Bertha was out, Anna was out ; and (3.) Whenever Cora was at home, Anna was at home. What information is here conveyed concerning Dora ? Indicating by the capital letters the fact of remaining at home, and by the small letters that of going out, our premises are...
Page 193 - ... needle is increased by the excitement of the magnet, if its lines of force are perpendicular to the plates of the condenser ; but if the condenser plates are parallel to these lines, the capacity is diminished. The percentages of increase in one case and decrease in the other are equal in magnetic fields of the same intensity, and these variations from the normal capacity are greater as the intensity of the field increases. The experiments which led to these conclusions were suggested by Maxwell's...
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