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ELECTRIC EEL (Gymnolus electricus), a member of the family of fishes known as Gymnotidae. In spite of their external similarity the Gymnotidae have nothing to do with the eels (Anguilla). They resemble the latter in the elongation of the body, the large number ...

... did not disturb the density of the chemically extracted gas, nor had the silent electric discharge any influence upon either quality. (" On an Anomaly encountered in determining the Density of Nitrogen Gas," Proc. Roy. Soc., April 1894.) At this stage it becam ...

... southern uplands of Scotland. Slates and fine-grained sandstones appear here freely through the glacial drift. In the south the granite core of this upland is revealed, and is quarried extensively about Bessbrook. It is penetrated by far younger intrusive mas ...

... s final abandonment of the law. In 1841-1843 IK published several papers on the electricity of effluent steam. This subject he was led to study by the experience of a colliery engine-man, who noticed that he received a sharp shock on exposing one hand to a jet ...

... recognize the obliquity of the ecliptic, and to regard the earth as a sphere freely poised in space. The tenet of its axial movement was held by many of his followers — in an obscure form by Philolaus of Crolona after the middle of the 5th century B.C., and m ...

ELECTRICITY. This article is devoted to a general sketch of the history of the development of electrical knowledge on both the theoretical and the practical sides. The two great branches of electrical theory which concern the phenomena of electricity at rest, ...

... 702 foreign-born); (1910) 5830. It is served by the Pennsylvania railway and by electric lines. Among its industrial establishments are rolling mills, tube and pipe works, furnaces, steel mills, a brass foundry, and manufactories of electrical railway supplies ...

... at the Paschal meal had been given up, and it was become the rule to recline. Kneeling with a view to adoration of the elements was unheard of in the primitive church, and the Armenian Fathers of the I2th century insist that the sacrament was intended by Chris ...

... invention in 1879 of the Thomas process for the manufacture of ingot iron and steel from the phosphoric iron ores, an invention which gave a greatly enhanced value to the ores on the borders of Lorraine, Luxemburg and Alsace, as well as others both in England ...

... . Thompson, The Electromagnet (London, 1891); J. A. Fleming, A Handbook for the Electrical Laboratory and Testing Room, vol. 2 (London, 1903); J. A. Ewing, Magnetic Induction in Iron and other Metals (London, 1903, 3rd ed.). sample of forged ingot-metal for dy ...

TAMWORTH, a municipality of Inglis county, New South Wales, Australia, on the Peel and Cockburn rivers, 285 m. by rail N. of Sydney. Pop. (1901) 5799. It is an attractive town in a pleasant situation, with fine broad streets lined with shady trees, and was the ...

... n used without qualification it usually denotes telegraphic apparatus worked by electricity, whether the signals that express the words of the message are visual, auditory or written. Land and Submarine Telegraphy will be considered in Part I., with a section ...

... was bodily imported from the Continent and does not include any mechanically or electrically driven parts, manual labour alone being used. The stage mechanism which was employed in the equipment of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, embodies the Sachs syste ...

... ewhere with trees only on the higher ranges below the Alpine region, and with treeless or desert interment valleys, plateaus and basins, very arid in the south-west. Between the two mountain systems extends a great central area of plains, stretching from the G ...

... ast areas along the Colorado river in the east and south-east are practically treeless. The lower plateaus and many of the basin ranges, as well as the basins themselves, are deserts. The higher plateaus, the Uinta and Wasatch mountains, bear forests of fir, s ...

... emi-conventional foliage mingled with grotesque animals, birds or dragons, is freely applied to arches and string courses. The walls are built of solid brickwork and then covered with thin slabs of rich and costly marbles. Sculptured panels, with conventional ...

... r, presented to the Stockholm Academy in 1853, he not only pointed out that the electric spark yields two superposed spectra, one from the metal of the electrode and the other from the gas in which it passes, but deduced from Euler's theory of resonance that a ...

... ere are no musclebanners. The larval forms of the type genus Cerianthui float freely in the sea. and were once considered to belong to a separate genus, Aracknactis. In this larva four pairs of mesenteries having the typical Edwardsian arrangement are develope ...

... ays easily seen. The thermal conductivity is also higher, a lump of anthracite feeling perceptibly colder when held in the warm hand than a similar lump of bituminous coal at the same temperature. The chemical composition of some typical anthracites is given i ...

... ewish disabilities (Huret, La Question Sociale — interview with Stocker). This feeling was strengthened by a tendency on the part of an extreme wing of the racial anti-Semites to extend their campaign against Judaism to its offspring, Christianity. In 1879 Pro ...

... Among the more recently introduced antiseptics, chinosol, a yellow substance freely soluble in water, and lysol, another coal-tar derivative, are much used. But every antiseptic, however good, is more or less toxic and irritating to a wounded surface. Hence i ...

... ious to recall her husband from Cleopatra's court. Later, observing the bitter feelings that had been evoked by the distribution of land among the veterans of Caesar, Antonius and Fulvia changed their attitude, and stood forward as the defenders of those who h ...

... to Ballycastle on the north coast; and the Giant's Causeway and Portrush is an electric railway (the first to be worked in the United Kingdom). The Lagan Canal connects Lough Neagh with Belfast Lough. Population and Administration. — The population in 1891 wa ...

... t iron, often in America of cast iron, with a smooth working face of hardened steel. It has at one end a projecting conical beak or bick for use in hammering curved pieces of metal; occasionally the other end is also provided with a bick, which is then partly ...

... ity it a prophetic religion. Now a prophet does not argue; he declares what be feels to be God's will. For himself, he rests, like the mystic, upon an immediate vision of truth; but he differs from most mystics in having a message for others; and — again unlik ...

... down, to stun), the terni employed by Galen to designate the " sudden loss of feeling and movement of the whole body, with the exception of respiration," to which, after the time of Harvey, was added " and with the exception of the circulation." Although the ...

... the subjects in question. This is probably a bona fide claim. It expresses the feeling common to the Apostolic Fathers and general in the sub-apostolic age, at any rate in regions where apostles had once laboured, . that local tradition, as held by the recogni ...

... ntroduced into them by heretics; and whilst the former were henceforward used freely in the East, only a few portions of the latter found their way into the Greek and oriental law-books. Again, Dionysius Exiguus (c. A.D. 500) translated fifty of the Canons int ...

... ge cisterns into a smaller cistern, from which it is distributed by means of an electric pump through vulcanite or lead pipes to the various tanks. The water with which the tanks on the upper floors are filled is first pumped into large wooden tanks placed ben ...

... aplace, the acquisition of the museum of Cluny, the development of railways and electric telegraphs, the improvement of the ARAGON navigation of the Seine, and the boring of the artesian well* at I'.rcncllc In the year 1830 also he was appointed director of th ...

... " Arbor " (from the Latin for " tree ") is a term applied to the spindle of a wheel, particularly in dock-making.

... re & Hudson, and the New York, Ontario & Western railways, and by an interurban electric line. It is about 900 ft. above sea-level; in the vicinity are extensive deposits of anthracite coal, the mining and breaking of which is the principal industry; silk thro ...

... the pre-Reformation archbishop as legatus natus of the pope. It was somewhat freely exercised by Cranmer and his successors immediately after the Reformation; but the main precedent now relied upon is that of Dr Watson, bishop of St Davids, who was deprived i ...

... C FIG. 131.— "FLAT-IRON" BUILDING. NEW YORK. (For method of construction, see STEEL CONSTRUCTION, and Plate II., Fig. 4, of that article.) H. 4441905 by Detroit Publiskimg Co. FIG. 134.— THE UNIVERSITY CLUB, NEW YORK. PLATE XVI. ARCHITECTURE [MODERN the import ...

... . These streams are all dry during the hot season, but in the rains they flow freely and replenish the numerous tanks and irrigation channels. The administrative headquarters are at Chittore, but the largest towns are Vellore (the military station), Tirupati ( ...

... tem. While Aristotle did not publish his philosophical works to the world, he freely communicated them to the Peripatetic school. They are not mere lectures ; but he used them for lectures: he allowed his pupils to read them in his library, and probably to tak ...

... cale, at Cromford in Derbyshire, the machinery of which was turned by a water-wheel. A fresh patent, taken out in 1775, covered several additional improvements in the processes of carding, roving and spinning. As the value of his processes became known, he beg ...

... magnetic circuit and preserve the magnetism of the steej; and hence, in dynamo-electric machinery, for the portion which is attracted by the electromagnet, as the moving part of an electric motor, or, by extension, the moving part of a dynamo (q.t.).

... ible energy is best expressed by his famous reply to Nicole, who complained of feeling tired. "Tired!" echoed Arnauld, " when you have all eternity to rest in?" Nor was this energy by any means absorbed by purely theological questions. He was one of the first ...