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By Golding Bird
, Charles Brooke

Published 1867
J. Churchilll and Sons

Physics

851 pages

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Aug 17, 2007

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Greenwich - Page 350
It may further be remarked, that since the employment of this apparatus at Greenwich, the number of assistants in the magnetic department has been ...
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Bologna - Page 555
Aldini, of Bologna. He was inspired with so much zeal in defence of his uncle's theory, that he travelled through France and England for the purpose ...
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Toronto - Page 353
Lefroy, EA, at Toronto, in Canada, was found to agree precisely in time, and very nearly in amount, with a similar disturbance indicated by the ...
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Belfast - Page 550
Andrews, of Belfast^ has discovered that platinum wires connected with a multiplier, and plunged into fused salts, are traversed by an electric ...
more pages: 131

Manchester - Page 453
Several trials made at Manchester have been very satisfactory ; the intensity of the light is so remarkable that the burning gas-lamps in the streets ...
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Portsmouth - Page 516
of the South Western Railway with Portsmouth, that when the current transmitted by one wire was returned by another, instead of by the earth, ...

Magdeburg - Page 384
The first machine constructed for this purpose was contrived by Otto do Gucricke, of Magdeburg ; it consisted of a globe of sulphur, turned by a winch ...

London - Page 730
and more time is required to produce an effect on sensitive paper, under the full blaze of a tropical sun, than in the gloomier atmosphere of London. ...
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Paris - Page 471
478, the beak of which has been carefully filled up with plaster of Paris : fix on this plaster floor a piece of glass tube closed at one end, ...
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Plymouth - Page 506
Hearder, of Plymouth: the principal features of this are, that the primary and secondary coils are distinct from each other, and consequently the ...

Berlin - Page 547
Seebeck, of Berlin, and has been studied with success by Prof. Gumming, of Cambridge, Mr. Sturgeon, and many other philosophers. ...
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Cambridge - Page 193
kind was brought from Italy in 1827 by Mr. Babbage; and a modified copy of this instrument was used by Mr. Airy in his lectures at Cambridge in 1828.
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New York - Page 730
Draper observed the same fact in travelling from New York towards the Southern States. These curious facts may probably be explained by the ...

Dunkirk - Page 210
the ocean at Dunkirk, and the Mediterranean at Barcelona, are nt the same elevation.* different densities incapable of mixing, as water and ...
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Copenhagen - Page 478
Oersted, of Copenhagen, to announce to the world the existence of a new and peculiar force reciprocally exerted between magnetic needles and the ...

Waterloo - Page 296
while the sound of'the cannonading at Waterloo is said to have been heard at Dover; and the noise of a sea-fight between the English and Dutch, ...

Dover - Page 296
while the sound of'the cannonading at Waterloo is said to have been heard at Dover; and the noise of a sea-fight between the English and Dutch, ...

Islington - Page 418
Cavallo, from a set of experiments performed at Islington in 1776, ascertained that the air always manifests potitive electricity, ...

Birmingham - Page 213
Tangye, of Birmingham. One of these is the hydraulic lifting jack. A, Fig. 272, in which the pump Suppose the diameter of the small cylinder, ...

Turin - Page 550
Botto, of Turin, succeeded in decomposing water, and various saline solutions. Prof. Wheatstone* obtained a spark by induction (887), ...

Amsterdam - Page 753
Asser, of Amsterdam, and adopted by the Ordnance Survey Department at Southampton, is very similar to that of Mr. ...
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Brussels - Page 344
to be undergoing a tolerably constant gradual diminution; these angles at Brussels were found by this philosopher to be of the following values:— ...

Liverpool - Page 337
A new iron ship, the Tayleur, of 2000 tons burden, sailed from Liverpool with emigrants early in 1854. She had, as usual, been »icunjr,f and evinced ...

Venice - Page 382
408, about eight or ten inches in diameter and one inch deep, pour a mixture of two parts of shell-lac and one of Venice tnrpentine, ...

Brighton - Page 530
530, which is a fac-simile of a written communication be-tween London and Brighton. It ia evi-dently necessary tbat the rotations of the two cylinders ...

Stockholm - Page 531
18 gauge ("048 inch in diameter), six being laid round one, imbedded in Chattertou's compound (a mixture ot shell-lac, and Stockholm tar, ...

Milan - Page 572
Baconio, of Milan, has shown that a lew alternations of elke» of beet-root and wood of the walnut-tree were capable of generatmr sufficient ...

Munich - Page 724
Munich glass .... Glass of antimony . . Speculum metal . . . Silver, rolled .... „ cost .... Gold. Palladium Lead. Bismuth ...

Quebec - Page 775
Box wood Quebec pine .... American birch . . . Long;. ...

Malua - Page 692
first discovered in 1810, by the celebrated philosopher Malua, an officer in the French engineers. M. Mains, whilst examining the ...

Calcutta - Page 271
At Calcutta (lat. 224° N.), the difference amounts to 0'52 inches. At the Cape of Good Hope (lat. 34° S.) the height is 0'29 greater in July than in ...