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Arthur Holly Compton's researches have been into the nature of electromagnetic waves. Those waves extend in a continuous series from wireless waves, which are 25 metres and more in length, through heat waves, light waves, ultraviolet waves, x-rays, gamma rays. X-rays give off gamma rays. Professor...
Physicist Wilson. In 1895, when Professor Compton was a demure three-year-old baby at Wooster (he is now 35), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson began his serious study of electromagnetic forces. This was at Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University. Since 1925 he has been Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy...
Relativity. "The whole electromagnetic theory must be re-written," now that relativity has set up a definite connection between electricity and gravitation. So said Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker of Edinburg University. He offered some propositions: that if the gravitation of a planet could vary rapidly, an electrified body in the...
All of these things Dr. Knowles would accomplish by means of a relay. A relay is an electromagnetic device in which the opening or closing of a circuit causes the opening or closing of a more powerful circuit. The ordinary relay will control a current only 10,000 times greater...
Lodge. Of all the lay scientists assembled, Sir Oliver Lodge was the only one to take a pulpit on Sunday morning. He gave a sermon-lecture in Manchester College chapel, and those present recalled that when last the British Association met in Oxford, 32 years ago, Sir Oliver had startled...