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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, ...

ELLIPTICITY, in astronomy, deviation from a circular or spherical form ; applied to the elliptic orbits of heavenly bodies, or the spheroidal form of such bodies. (Sec also COMPRESSION.)

... 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 ...

... meteorological, and spectroscopic departments were added to the establishment; electricity was employed, through the medium of the chronograph, for the registration of transits; and photography was resorted to for the daily automatic record of the sun's condi ...

... due to Dictator Francia; the principal streets are paved and lighted by gas and electricity, and telephone and street-car services are maintained. The climate is hot but healthful, the mean annual temperature being about 72° F. The city is the seat of a bishop ...

... Timbuktu: Reise durch Marokko, vol. i. (Leipzig. 1884). ATMOLYSIS— ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY

... urs, in an amount supposed to be associated with the development of atmospheric electricity (lightning, &c.); this amount varies with the seasons, being a maximum in spring, and decreasing through summer and autumn to a minimum in winter. Hydrogen dioxide occu ...

... N, the name suggested by Dr G. Johnstone Stoney in 1891 for the natural unit of electricity to which he had drawn attention in 1874, and subsequently applied to the ultraatomic particles carrying negative charges of electricity, of which Professor Sir J. J. Th ...

... s transformed into electrostatic charge by the aid of a small initial charge of electricity. The operation depends on the facts of electrostatic induction discovered by John Canton in 1753, and, independently, by J. K. Wilcke in 1762 (see ELECTRICITY). Volta, ...

... ossibilities. They had already taken out certain patents for the application of electricity to metals when, in 1840, John Wright, a Birmingnam surgeon, discovered the valuable properties of a solution of cyanide of silver in cyanide of potassium for electropla ...

... energy, for it is capable of doing work in exploding; aLeyden jar charged with electricity possesses energy, for it is capable of doing work in being discharged. The motions of bodies, or of the ultimate parts of bodies, also involve energy, for stopping them ...

... ans of escape, e.g. " fire-escape," and of a loss or leakage of gas, current of electricity or water.

... 2) the invention of efficient machines for the application of power by means of electricity, an invention which gave greatly increased importance to the water-power of mountainous countries; and (3) the discovery of the fact that from lignite an even higher gr ...

... same reason, the revolving plate B will have ninety-nine parts of the opposite electricity, ana the ball D one The rotation, by destroying the contacts,, preserves this unequa (JHtribution, and carries B from A to C at the same time that the tai K connects th ...

... is much indebted) and other references given, sec J. Clerk Maxwell, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (2nd ed., Oxford, 1881), vol. i. p. 294; J. D. Everett, Electricity (expansion of part iii. of Dcschanel's Natural Philosophy) (London, 1901), ch. iv. p. ...

... abundant water-power from swift mountain streams, which is used for generating electricity for municipal and industrial use. In 1900 and in 1905 Tacoma ranked second among the cities of the state in the value of factory products. Lead smelting and refining (b ...

... ts lined with shady trees, and was the first town in Australia to be lighted by electricity. Tamworth is the centre of several goldfields, at one of which, Bingera, diamonds are found. It is also the market of a pastoral and agricultural district. Brewing, mal ...

... 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 ...

... of Edinburgh, then resident in Boston, Mass., U.S.A. Bell, like Reis, employed electricity for the reproduction of sounds; but he attacked the problem in a totally different manner. This will be better understood if we consider shortly on what the chief chara ...

... spension of all scenery from above, the application of light in four colours by electricity, and the designing of all scenery to accord as much as possible with nature, the whole mounting being built up on the basis of a flat stage as distinct from the sloping ...

... r follows a flash of lightning, due to the disturbance of air by a discharge of electricity (see LIGHTNING; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY and METEOROLOGY). The Old English word is bunor, also the name of the Scandinavian god Thor (q.v.), which is cognate with Dutch ...

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