 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...words they indicate, from which it appears that Tie has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence...two lovers, prohibited or prevented from any better epistolary intercourse. A second edition of Mr. Young's Tour was published in quarto in 1794, and the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 372 pages
...top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife,...two lovers prohibited or prevented from any better connexion. Whatever the use may be, the invention is beautiful." — Arthur Young's Travels in France... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 426 pages
...is an electrmnolor, a small fine pith-ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder nnd clectrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife, by remarking...a thousand times more harmless, between two lovers prohiblted or prevented from any better connection. Whatever the usn may be, the invention is beautiful."... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1881 - 506 pages
...fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant department ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions...Whatever the use may be, the invention is beautiful.' Other telegraphic expedients were suggested by Reusser (1794), by Don Silva, in Spain, about the same... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 pages
...newspaper, the Commonwealth. nects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant department ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions...Whatever the use may be, the invention is beautiful." Other telegraphic expedients were suggested by Reusser (1794), by Don Silva, in Spain, about the same... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1882 - 780 pages
...ball. A wire connects it with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and bis wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the...Whatever the use may be, the invention is beautiful. M. Lomond has many other curious machines, all the entire work of his own hands ; mechanical invention... | |
 | John Joseph Fahie - 1884 - 596 pages
...of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith-ball* ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment, and his wife,...prevented, from any better connection. Whatever the use may * Soon after the discovery of the Leyden jar the necessity of some sufficient indicator of the presence... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1889 - 472 pages
...top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife,...curious machines, all the entire work of his own hands r mechanical invention seems to be in him a natural propensity. In the evening to the Comedie Francaise.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 618 pages
...remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate: from which it appears he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length...Whatever the use may be, the invention is beautiful. M. Lomond has many other curious machines, all the entire work of his own hands: mechanical invention... | |
 | 1858 - 1062 pages
...the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate ; from, which it appears, EA V Y - $ G e,4 ܦ =j "z W Te" Y J# ?T 9* ] C ... DPΆ" [e y$B@lG )` , v 2 = \ ~2 k th` r e bY =T From Household Words. WALKER. IT is well known that the meaning of many words has altered considerably... | |
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... a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate; from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions.... 
