Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1872 |
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... electricity , and of light ; chemical analyses of soils and plants ; collection and publication of scientific facts accumulated in the offices of government . ( 4. ) Institution of statistical inquiries with reference to physical ...
... electricity , and of light ; chemical analyses of soils and plants ; collection and publication of scientific facts accumulated in the offices of government . ( 4. ) Institution of statistical inquiries with reference to physical ...
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... electricity , & c . , from 1861-269 , inclusive . Zantedeschi , Professor F. - La meteorologia del globo studiata a diversi altitudini da terra . 8vo , 11 pages . Zentralnaia Fisicheskaia Observatoria , St. Petersburg . - Repertorium ...
... electricity , & c . , from 1861-269 , inclusive . Zantedeschi , Professor F. - La meteorologia del globo studiata a diversi altitudini da terra . 8vo , 11 pages . Zentralnaia Fisicheskaia Observatoria , St. Petersburg . - Repertorium ...
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... electricity developed by magnetism . Journ . Franklin Inst . , x , 66 ; Amer . Journ . Sci . , xxii , 409 . Alarm to be applied to the interior flues of steam - boilers . Journ . Frank- lin Inst . , x , 217 . On the diurnal variation of ...
... electricity developed by magnetism . Journ . Franklin Inst . , x , 66 ; Amer . Journ . Sci . , xxii , 409 . Alarm to be applied to the interior flues of steam - boilers . Journ . Frank- lin Inst . , x , 217 . On the diurnal variation of ...
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... electric discharge , and which produces the glow of the diamond and the luminosity of the com- pounds of lime , barium ... electricity , of which the intensity is in a continued state of change , and of which a knowledge of the laws , as ...
... electric discharge , and which produces the glow of the diamond and the luminosity of the com- pounds of lime , barium ... electricity , of which the intensity is in a continued state of change , and of which a knowledge of the laws , as ...
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... electricity . Taking up the experiments of M. Becquerel , who attempted to show that in an homogeneous circuit heated at one point , electricity is produced because the heat emitted on both sides of this point differs in quantity ...
... electricity . Taking up the experiments of M. Becquerel , who attempted to show that in an homogeneous circuit heated at one point , electricity is produced because the heat emitted on both sides of this point differs in quantity ...
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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 9 - The volumes of the memoirs to be exchanged for the Transactions 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 122 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Página 246 - Within a finite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time to come, the earth must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless operations have been, or are to be performed, which are impossible under the laws to which the known operations going on at present in the material world are subject.
Página 405 - Let the laborers be hired for the trip, and informed as to what they are to do and how they are to do it.
Página 8 - ... 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. To DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed — 1.
Página 11 - By the publication of separate treatises on subjects of general interest. 1. These treatises may occasionally consist of valuable memoirs translated from foreign languages, or of articles prepared under the direction of the institution, or procured by offering premiums for the best exposition of a given subject. 2. The treatises should, in all cases, be submitted to a commission of competent judges, previous to their publication.
Página 284 - ... deer will outrun the leopard in a fair and open chase, because the work supplied to its muscles by the vegetable food is capable of being given out continuously for a long period of time ; but in a sudden rush at a near distance the leopard will infallibly overtake the deer, because its flesh food stores up in the blood a reserve of force capable of being given out instantaneously in the form of exceedingly rapid muscular action.
Página 105 - The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by the principal universities of this country, and few of our leading societies were willing to forego the honor of numbering him among their associates. He was elected in succession president of the American Philosophical Society, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the National Academy of Sciences established by Congress. Nor were foreigners less forward in acknowledging his merit. He was a member of the Royal Society...
Página 246 - ... in comparison with the force of the mine which it explodes. But without the power to make some material disposition,' to originate some movement, or to change, at least temporarily, the amount of dynamical force appropriate to some one or more material molecules, the mechanical results of human or animal volition are inconceivable. It matters not that we are ignorant of the mode in which this is performed. It suffices to bring the origination of dynamical power, to however small an extent, within...