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THOMPSON, FRANCIS (1860-1007), English poet, was born at Ashton, Lancashire, in 1860. His father, a doctor, became a convert to Roman Catholicism, following his brother Edward Healy Thompson, a friend of Manning. The boy was accordingly educated at Ushaw Colle ...

THOMSON, SIR CHARLES WYVILLE (1830-1882), Scottish naturalist, was born at Bonsyde, Linlithgowshire, on the sth of March 1830, and was educated at Edinburgh University. In 1850 he was appointed lecturer in, and in 1851 professor of, botany at Aberdeen, and in

THOMASON, GEORGE (d. 1666), English book and tract collector, was a London bookseller, whose life contains few items of interest save the fact that he was concerned in a royalist plot in 1651. He is famous, however, as the man who brought together the great co

THOMSEN, GRfMUR (1820-1896), Icelandic poet and man of letters, was born in 1820. He came in 1837 to the university of Copenhagen, where he first studied law and philology, but later, philosophy and aesthetics. He became an enthusiastic follower of the Pan-Sca

... gie et I'astrologie a I'antiquite et au moyen Age (4th ed.. Paris, 1877); R. C. Thompson, Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon (2 vols., London, 1900) ; F. X. Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel (Freiburg, 1907; — to be compl ...

... of the Gilbert Club of England, with a series of valuable notes by Prof. S. P. Thompson (London, 1900). See also The Electrician, February 21, 1902. * See The Intellectual Rise in Electricity, ch. x., by Park Benjamin (London, 1895). electrical needle and pro ...

... s was due to T. Cavallo (Phil. Trans., 1788). For further information see S. P. Thompson, " The Influence Machine from 1788 to 1888," Journ. Inst. Tel. Ene., 1888, 17, p. 569. Many references to original papers connected with the electrophorus will be found in ...

... fort to restore the universality of the doctrine of energy was made by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, and was published in the Phil. Trans, for 1798. Rumford was engaged in superintending the boring of cannon in the military arsenal at Munich, and was struc ...

17,200 18,600 18,420 18,030 17,600 •See S. P. 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, 3 ...

... rent producing power of influence machines. BIBLIOGRAPHY.— In addition to S. P. Thompson's valuable IKIJHT on influence machines (to which this article is much indebted) and other references given, sec J. Clerk Maxwell, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (2 ...

... erred them to a supposed new " aetheric force "), and confirmed by Beard, S. P. Thompson, E. J. Houston and others.1 D. E Hughes made some remarkable observations and experiments in or between the years 1879 and 1886 though he did not describe them till some t ...

... ch. Jour., xxvi. 307; R. M. Ferguson, Electricity (London, 1866), p. 257; S. P. Thompson, Philipp Reis, the Inventor of the Telephone (London. 1883). circuit at each vibration, thus transmitting as many electric pulses through the circuit as there were vibrati ...

... ll recall the processional glories of A Dream of Fair Women, designed by Alfred Thompson; Ths Land of Fairy Tales, by Percy Anderson; and The Silver Wedding (Puss in Boots), The Paradise of the Birds (Babes in the Wood), and The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus ( ...

... of the Life and Correspondence of Nathanael Greene (Charleston, 1822); William -Thompson Reed's Life and Correspondence of George Reed (Philadelphia, 1870); Charles Janeway Stille's Life and Times of John Dickinson (Philadelphia, 1891); William Wirt Henry's Pa ...