Notices of the Proceedings, Volume 14 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 62
Page 4
... tube is sealed off at the point A , and the bulb instantly removed from the heated bath to such an extent as to allow condensation to take place in the small chamber marked B W in the figure . As the air - pump can maintain a vacuum of ...
... tube is sealed off at the point A , and the bulb instantly removed from the heated bath to such an extent as to allow condensation to take place in the small chamber marked B W in the figure . As the air - pump can maintain a vacuum of ...
Page 8
... tube , and the temperature of -200 ° C. can be reached by exhausting the oxygen by means of a powerful air- pump . The results point to the conclusion that absolutely pure FIG . 6 . IRON PLATINUM ALUMINIUM GOLD SILVER COPPER NICKLE 150 ...
... tube , and the temperature of -200 ° C. can be reached by exhausting the oxygen by means of a powerful air- pump . The results point to the conclusion that absolutely pure FIG . 6 . IRON PLATINUM ALUMINIUM GOLD SILVER COPPER NICKLE 150 ...
Page 10
... tube contains the liquid oxygen under exhaustion , surrounded by a vacuum vessel , the interior space between the inner tube and the vacuum vessel being connected with a receiver containing the gas which is to be liquefied . If the ...
... tube contains the liquid oxygen under exhaustion , surrounded by a vacuum vessel , the interior space between the inner tube and the vacuum vessel being connected with a receiver containing the gas which is to be liquefied . If the ...
Page 12
... tube like a marble . On lifting the solid alcohol out by means of a looped wire the appli- cation of the flame of a Bunsen burner will not ignite it . After a time the solid melts and falls from the looped wire like a thick syrup . It ...
... tube like a marble . On lifting the solid alcohol out by means of a looped wire the appli- cation of the flame of a Bunsen burner will not ignite it . After a time the solid melts and falls from the looped wire like a thick syrup . It ...
Page 37
... with electric stresses , that become visible when a vacuum tube is brought near the conductor . This experiment 1 was shown here by Nikola Tesla in connection with his 1893. ] 87 on Theory and Practice in Electrical Science .
... with electric stresses , that become visible when a vacuum tube is brought near the conductor . This experiment 1 was shown here by Nikola Tesla in connection with his 1893. ] 87 on Theory and Practice in Electrical Science .
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Accademia dei Lincei apparatus April argon artist Astronomical atmosphere bacilli cent Chemical cloud coil colour bands condensation cooling copper curve DAVID EDWARD HUGHES diphtheria disc discharge drop effect Electrical Engineer electrical resistance experiments fact Fasc February fluid FREDERICK BRAMWELL galvanometer give glass heat Hertz Horatius Cocles imagination inch increased Irish iron JAMES CRICHTON-BROWNE Journal July-Oct lecture light liquid air liquid oxygen Lord Rayleigh M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. Treasurer magnetic means mercury metal method motion nature Nile nitrogen observations obtained ordinary pass Photographic pigment plate possible present pressure produced Professor radiation rays resistance river Royal Institution Royal-Journal Serie Quinta SIR JAMES CRICHTON-BROWNE Society Society-Journal South London line spores steam surface temperature tion tube turacin Tyndall United vacuum vapour vessel vibrations waves WEEKLY EVENING MEETING weight wire
Popular passages
Page 419 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor ; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance: that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 188 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Page 580 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 574 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 188 - For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow. Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure. The whole is either our cupboard of food Or cabinet of pleasure.
Page 12 - I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in, my own immaterial nature. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality.
Page 584 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
Page 168 - I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them...
Page 582 - As a matter of fact, although few things are spoken of with more fearful whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances. We have all heard...
Page 578 - Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown.