Word: andrã
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...Reporters hunt him out of his hotel cubicle for his yearly interview and for a day his long-standing fame flares again. People who all their lives have lived by means of the devices he has invented and inspired, people who have forgotten there were an Alessandro Volta, an Andr?? Marie Ampère, a Georg Simon Ohm in, a Charles Augustin de Coulomb, a Luigi Galvani or a James Watt, are reminded that there still is a Nikola Tesla (pronounced Tcshlah) who long ago rave them the Tesla induction motor which made alternating current practical, and the Tesla transformer which...
What Happened to Andr?...
...Spitsbergen three weeks ago. About 150 yards from shore they rounded a big rock, stopped, stared with amazement at a litter of cooking utensils laid bare of ice by the August sun. The same question sprang to the mind of each, the same name to all their lips: "Andr?...
...well preserved. From the clothing of one the discoverers took a pedometer, excitedly read the engraved name of Salomon August Andree. A 33-year mystery? was solved. They knew for certain now that the other two were the bodies of Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg who, with Swedish Scientist Andr??e, vanished in 1897 in an attempt to fly across the North Pole in a balloon...
...presence in France generated an atmosphere of intense expectancy. Was his story of the usual diplomatic kind that conceals a secret mission of high international import? He insisted he would see no French officials ?and then he waited over 24 hours on the chance of conferring with Premier Andr?? Tardieu. A mysterious appointment was made for 5 p.m. The French Premier waited two hours for Mr. Mills to arrive, only to learn that he had already departed for Monte Carlo. The Mills household was amazed, for Mr. Mills had been waiting, it said, to hear from M. Tardieu! Said...