The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... glass cup . The Norwegians , ' by the middle of the century , not only had the instrument in constant employment , but were using it as an especial reward of merit and as the device of an order of knighthood . Meanwhile the influence of ...
... glass cup . The Norwegians , ' by the middle of the century , not only had the instrument in constant employment , but were using it as an especial reward of merit and as the device of an order of knighthood . Meanwhile the influence of ...
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... glass ) of water , in which the bowl floats , and the magnet , of course , places itself with its poles in the magnetic meridian . Thus he can recognize all points of the horizon by the marks which he has put on the edge of the bowl ...
... glass ) of water , in which the bowl floats , and the magnet , of course , places itself with its poles in the magnetic meridian . Thus he can recognize all points of the horizon by the marks which he has put on the edge of the bowl ...
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... glass . In the centre of the instrument , and stepped in the glass cover and in the bottom of the box , is a pivot , through which passes the compass needle , now no longer an ovoid lodestone , but a true needle of steel or iron . Then ...
... glass . In the centre of the instrument , and stepped in the glass cover and in the bottom of the box , is a pivot , through which passes the compass needle , now no longer an ovoid lodestone , but a true needle of steel or iron . Then ...
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... glass due to fire and hot things ; " and there he rests content , oblivious of the hopeless inconsistency of this notion with that part of his theory which accounts for the phenomenon by the attraction between dry and moist bodies . The ...
... glass due to fire and hot things ; " and there he rests content , oblivious of the hopeless inconsistency of this notion with that part of his theory which accounts for the phenomenon by the attraction between dry and moist bodies . The ...
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... glass , false gems made of crystal or paste glass , fluor spars , antimony , glass , belemnites , sulphur , antimony glass , mastic , lac sealing wax , hard resin , orpiment , rock salt , mica and rock alum . " It was an astounding ...
... glass , false gems made of crystal or paste glass , fluor spars , antimony , glass , belemnites , sulphur , antimony glass , mastic , lac sealing wax , hard resin , orpiment , rock salt , mica and rock alum . " It was an astounding ...
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