 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Agriculture - 1910 - 556 pages
...electrometer — a small fine pith ball — a " wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer " in a distant apartment and his wife, by remarking...formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the " wire makes no difference, a correspondence might be " carried on at any distance, within and without... | |
 | W. J. Wiltshire - Transportation - 1913 - 242 pages
...an electrometer, a small, fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking...motions of the ball writes down the words they indicate. ... As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1915 - 398 pages
...is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes 1 Whitehurst's Formation of the Earth, 2nd ed. p. 6. — Author's note. down the words they indicate:... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1879 - 586 pages
...electrometer, — a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife by remarking...down the words they indicate. From which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - Reference - 1994 - 428 pages
...electronometer, a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and elcctronomcter in a distant apartment, and his wife, by remarking...length of the wires makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on at any distance. Whatever the use may be, the invention is beautiful.'... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1880 - 884 pages
...an electrometer, a fine small pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking...words they indicate : from which it appears he has found an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1880 - 660 pages
...an electrometer, a fine small pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking...words they indicate : from which it appears he has found an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1929 - 496 pages
...is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife, by remarking...down the words they indicate; from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1847 - 636 pages
...which is an electrometer, a small pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking...motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate . . . the length of the wire makes no difference." This telegraph, however, like most of those which... | |
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... he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife, by... 
