 | A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu - 1994 - 248 pages
...first time, to take on the appearance of a laboratory. Primary batteries ... together with a battery of Leyden jars; shelves with Bunsen burners, vacuum tubes, and bottles of chemicals ... lined its walls'. Introduction firm footing. A concentration on the last hundred years of physics... | |
 | Jed Z. Buchwald - 1995 - 420 pages
...impact of strategies for working with these parameters on the domestic economy of his observatory: Then it was that an astronomical observatory began,...especially of specimens of pure metals, lined its walls.12 Resources for such laboratories were rapidly assembled around the midcentury, at just the... | |
 | Jed Z. Buchwald - 1995 - 424 pages
...impact of strategies for working with these parameters on the domestic economy of his observatory: shelves with bunsen burners, vacuum tubes and bottles...especially of specimens of pure metals, lined its walls.12 Resources for such laboratories were rapidly assembled around the midcentury, at just the... | |
 | Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - 2002 - 228 pages
...observatory itself began to mutate into a deeply industrialized space. As he recalled, Tulse Hill took on the appearance of a laboratory. Primary batteries,...especially of specimens of pure metals, lined its walls. 14 Astrophysics was a hybrid discipline, and astrophysical observatories like Tulse Hill reflected... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Mary Jo Nye, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - 2003 - 714 pages
...on wheels so as to follow the positions of the eye-end of the telescope, together with a battery of Leyden jars; shelves with Bunsen burners, vacuum tubes,...especially of specimens of pure metals, lined its walls.24 This sort of observatory was quite unlike the traditional observatory directed toward positional... | |
 | Iwan Rhys Morus - 2009 - 317 pages
...The result, according to Mr Huggins himself—William Huggins, owner of a private observatory—was that "an astronomical observatory began, for the first...especially of specimens of pure metals, lined its walls." 30 The German physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff took the lead in solar spectroscopy with experiments... | |
 | Iwan Rhys Morus - 2009 - 317 pages
...The result, according to Mr Huggins himself — William Huggins, owner of a private observatory — was that "an astronomical observatory began, for the...especially of specimens of pure metals, lined its walls."30 The German physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff took the lead in solar spectroscopy with experiments... | |
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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... 
