 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1879 - 590 pages
...spinning cotton. In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery. You write two or three words ou a paper ; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, — a small fine pith ball... | |
 | William John Johnston - 1880 - 288 pages
...inventive mechanic, who has made an improvement in the jenny for spinning cotton. In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery. You write two or three words on paper; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine inclosed in a cy lindrical case, at the... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1882 - 780 pages
...at Paris, to Jf. Lomond, a very ingenious and inventive mechanic. In electricity he has made a retwo or three words on a paper ; he takes it with him into...enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which SO great is the love of compromise in modern times, that the highest order of men, if they be shrewd... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - 1883 - 700 pages
...1788, and 1789, thus speaks of a 'very ingenious mechanic, named Lomond : " In electricity, he had made a remarkable discovery. You write two or three words on a piece of paper ; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a * Proluaiones Academicae. t Scott's... | |
 | William T. Jeans - 1887 - 356 pages
...very ingenious and inventive mechanic," M. Lomond, had made a remarkable discovery in electricity: "You write two or three words on a paper; he takes it with him into a room and turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1889 - 472 pages
...to make too hard a thread for certain fabrics, but this forms it loose and spongy. In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery : you write two or...takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1891 - 894 pages
...Edwards's late edition (Bell and Sons), at p. 96. "In the evening to Mons. Lomond. . . In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery. You write two or...takes it with him into a room and turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball ; a... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1891 - 900 pages
...Lomond. . . In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery. You write two or three won)* on • paper ; he takes it with him into a room and turns a «f«f*»i«>« inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is in electrometer, a small fine... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1892 - 452 pages
...to make too hard a thread for certain fabrics, but this forms it loose and spongy. In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery : you write two or...takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball ; a... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 618 pages
...to make too hard a thread for certain fabrics, but this forms it loose and spongy. In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery; you write two or...takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith-ball; a wire... | |
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In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery: you write two or three words on a paper ; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball ; a wire... 
