Catalogue of Books and Papers Relating to Electricity, Magnetism, the Electric Telegraph, &c: Including the Ronalds Library, Volume 2Alfred James Frost |
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Page 501 - Notes of a Course of Seven Lectures on Electrical Phenomena and Theories, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, April-June, 1870.
Page 127 - 1827 Six Discourses delivered before the Royal Society at their anniversary meeting» on the award of the Royal and Copley Medals, preceded by an Address to the Society on the progress and prospects of Science. 4to. London, 1827
Page 529 - Dictionary of Chemistry, bringing the Record of Chemical Discovery down to the end of the year 1869; including also several Additions to, and corrections of, former Results which have appeared in 1870 and 1871.
Page xii - I felt very little disappointment and not a shadow of resentment on the occasion, because everyone knows that telegraphs have long been great bores at the Admiralty. Should they again become necessary, however, perhaps electricity and electricians may be indulged by his Lordship and Mr. Barrow with an opportunity of
Page xiii - should not our Kings hold councils at Brighton with their Ministers in London ? Why should not our Government govern at Portsmouth almost as promptly as in Downing Street ? Why should our defaulters escape by default of our foggy climate
Page 490 - Committee. Report of the Joint Committee appointed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, and the Atlantic Telegraph Company, to inquire into the construction of Submarine Telegraph Cables,
Page 533 - A- Annual of Scientific Discovery ; or, Year Book of Facts in Science and Art ; exhibiting the most important discoveries in Mechanics,
Page 31 - Records and Results of a Magnetic Survey of Pennsylvania and parts of adjacent States in 1840 and 1841, with some additional records and results of
Page 224 - in diameter, so constructed as to be above the operator ; also of a Battery discharger employed therewith, and some observations on the causes of the diversity in the length of the Sparks erroneously distinguished by the terms Positive and Negative.
Page 162 - Smith. Admiralty Manual for ascertaining and applying the deviations of the Compass caused by the iron in a ship. Published by order of the Admiralty.