Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1869 |
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... oxygen to one identical primitive action . * " By referring all motions to their fundamental laws , the mechanical part of the natural sciences , " adds Oersted , " has been raised to that present degree of per- fection which embraces ...
... oxygen to one identical primitive action . * " By referring all motions to their fundamental laws , the mechanical part of the natural sciences , " adds Oersted , " has been raised to that present degree of per- fection which embraces ...
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... oxygen and hydrogen by the decomposition of the liquid . On the whole , it is impossible to deny that from that time the fundamental idea of a future electric telegraph existed among the auditors and friends of M. Ampère . There ...
... oxygen and hydrogen by the decomposition of the liquid . On the whole , it is impossible to deny that from that time the fundamental idea of a future electric telegraph existed among the auditors and friends of M. Ampère . There ...
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... oxygen obtained by the decomposition of water similar to that produced when a large electrical machine is in active operation , or when a discharge of lightning takes place between a cloud and the earth . This odor he at first ...
... oxygen obtained by the decomposition of water similar to that produced when a large electrical machine is in active operation , or when a discharge of lightning takes place between a cloud and the earth . This odor he at first ...
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... oxygen in which it is endowed with special properties . We cannot here enumerate the many discoveries connected with this subject , and still less retrace the important steps that have been made in the domain of chemistry and of ...
... oxygen in which it is endowed with special properties . We cannot here enumerate the many discoveries connected with this subject , and still less retrace the important steps that have been made in the domain of chemistry and of ...
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... oxygen in a changed or allotropic condition . One of the simplest methods of exhibiting the production of ozone consists in transmitting a current of oxygen through a glass tube , into the sides of which a pair of platinum wires have ...
... oxygen in a changed or allotropic condition . One of the simplest methods of exhibiting the production of ozone consists in transmitting a current of oxygen through a glass tube , into the sides of which a pair of platinum wires have ...
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Página 7 - The property is bequeathed to the United States of America, "to found at Washington, under the name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Página 8 - To INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed — 1. To stimulate men of talent to make original researches, by offering suitable rewards for memoirs containing new truths ; and, 2. To appropriate annually a portion of the income for particular researches, under the direction of suitable persons.
Página 9 - ... of literary and scientific societies, and copies to be given to all the colleges and principal libraries in this country. One part of the remaining copies may be offered for sale, and the other carefully preserved, to form complete sets of the work, to supply the demand from new institutions.
Página 10 - The following are some of the subjects which may be embraced in the reports:* I. PHYSICAL CLASS. 1. Physics, including astronomy, natural philosophy, chemistry, and meteorology. 2. Natural history, including botany, zoology, geology, &c. 3. Agriculture. 4. Application of science to arts. II. MORAL AND POLITICAL CLASS. 5. Ethnology, including particular history, comparative philology, antiquities, &c.
Página 11 - It is believed that the collections in natural history will increase by donation as rapidly as the income of the Institution can make provision for their reception, and therefore it will seldom be necessary to purchase articles of this kind.
Página 11 - With reference to the collection of books, other than those mentioned above, catalogues of all the different libraries in the United States should be procured, in order that the valuable books first purchased may oe such as are not to be found in the United States.
Página 8 - No memoir on subjects of physical science to be accepted for publication which does not furnish, a positive addition to human knowledge, resting on original research; and all unverified speculations to be rejected.
Página 294 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.
Página 292 - The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back of the eyeball and there spreads out, to form the retina, a web of nerve filaments, on which the images of external objects are projected by the optical portion of the eye. This nerve is limited to the apprehension of the phenomena of radiation, and, notwithstanding its marvellous sensibility to certain impressions of this class, it is singularly obtuse to other impressions.
Página 11 - Resolved, That hereafter the annual appropriations shall be apportioned specifically among the different objects and operations of the Institution, in such manner as may, in the judgment of the Regents, be necessary and proper for each, according to its intrinsic importance, and a compliance in good faith with the law.