Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1877 |
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... Passing to the subject of electricity , it is with pleasure that I have to announce the failure of a recent attempt to deprive Oerstedt of his great discovery . It is gratifying thus to find high reputations vindicated , and names which ...
... Passing to the subject of electricity , it is with pleasure that I have to announce the failure of a recent attempt to deprive Oerstedt of his great discovery . It is gratifying thus to find high reputations vindicated , and names which ...
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... passing it through different media , and we can thus have luminous rays with little heating or little chemical ... passes , during every lunation , through a greater range of temperature than the difference between the freezing- and ...
... passing it through different media , and we can thus have luminous rays with little heating or little chemical ... passes , during every lunation , through a greater range of temperature than the difference between the freezing- and ...
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... passing tribute to the memory of Ångström , whose great work on the solar spectrum will always remain as one of the finest monuments of the science of our period . The influence , indeed , which the labours of Ångström and of Kirchhoff ...
... passing tribute to the memory of Ångström , whose great work on the solar spectrum will always remain as one of the finest monuments of the science of our period . The influence , indeed , which the labours of Ångström and of Kirchhoff ...
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... passes through the circuit the actual temperature of each rock - face could be observed . This mode of observation is free from all objections , excepting those of false currents arising in long wires and plates of the same metal ...
... passes through the circuit the actual temperature of each rock - face could be observed . This mode of observation is free from all objections , excepting those of false currents arising in long wires and plates of the same metal ...
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... passing through a longitudinal slit in the lid and attached to a small tin blade , without injuring them . The twenty - four extremities of iron wire projecting 1 or 2 inches beyond the bottom of the bath are there soldered to the feet ...
... passing through a longitudinal slit in the lid and attached to a small tin blade , without injuring them . The twenty - four extremities of iron wire projecting 1 or 2 inches beyond the bottom of the bath are there soldered to the feet ...
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