 You write two or three words on a paper ; 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...  Nature - Síđa 219 breytti - 1880Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - 1910 - 556 síđur
...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...words they indicate, from which it appears he has " formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the " wire makes no difference, a correspondence... | |
 | W. J. Wiltshire - 1913 - 242 síđur
...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...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 - 1915 - 398 síđur
...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...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:... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 796 síđur
...pretty little ball of the :pith of a quill, suspended by a silk thread ; a brass wire connects it to a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife, on observing the movements of the corresponding ball, writes the words which it indicates. From this... | |
 | 1922 - 734 síđur
...having a pretty little ball of pith of a quill suspended by a silk thread ; a brass wire connects it to a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment, and his wife, on observing the movements of the corresponding ball, writes the words which it indicates. From this... | |
 | 1922 - 736 síđur
...having a pretty little ball of pith of a quill suspended by a silk thread ; a brass wire connects it to a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment, and his wife, on observing the movements of the corresponding ball, writes the words which it indicates. From this... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1879 - 588 síđur
...a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, — a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder...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 - 1994 - 428 síđur
...electronometer, a small fine pith ball ; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and elcctronomcter in a distant apartment, and his wife, by remarking...words they indicate ; from which it appears he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wires makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1929 - 496 síđur
...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...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,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1892 - 990 síđur
...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...writes down the words they indicate: from which it appeal-s that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in... | |
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