The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... reached the ground , The recent thread around its spire was wound , Until the clasp within its nipping cleft Held fast the newly finished length of weft . " As the spindle descended , and at the same time whirled around , it rubbed ...
... reached the ground , The recent thread around its spire was wound , Until the clasp within its nipping cleft Held fast the newly finished length of weft . " As the spindle descended , and at the same time whirled around , it rubbed ...
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... reached . To sus- pend an elongated piece of the stone and see it turn itself in a definite direction ; or to do this repeatedly and with different pieces and thus learn that the phenomenon is true of this particular stone and not of ...
... reached . To sus- pend an elongated piece of the stone and see it turn itself in a definite direction ; or to do this repeatedly and with different pieces and thus learn that the phenomenon is true of this particular stone and not of ...
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... reached only when it wearied of its own exuberance - a logical impossibility , perhaps , when the creator was the worshiper of his own creations . Equally were there no bounds to the theories which might be evolved to account for ...
... reached only when it wearied of its own exuberance - a logical impossibility , perhaps , when the creator was the worshiper of his own creations . Equally were there no bounds to the theories which might be evolved to account for ...
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... reached its final resting place in the legend of Mahomet's coffin . Since this myth furnishes the sub- stance of one of the most common metaphors in use , the facts on which it rests , or rather does not rest , are worth stating . After ...
... reached its final resting place in the legend of Mahomet's coffin . Since this myth furnishes the sub- stance of one of the most common metaphors in use , the facts on which it rests , or rather does not rest , are worth stating . After ...
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... reached in about 675 B. C.1 There is no trustworthy evidence , however , that the Phoenicians , despite their skill as iron workers , had any knowledge of the directive property of the magnet . Their most ancient book , written by ...
... reached in about 675 B. C.1 There is no trustworthy evidence , however , that the Phoenicians , despite their skill as iron workers , had any knowledge of the directive property of the magnet . Their most ancient book , written by ...
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