Word: faraday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern science." TIME apparently substantiates this by listing the books studied but, curiously enough, it omits the books read in the fourth year. The books are read chronologically, and the fourth year, which is devoted exclusively to "modern thinkers, modern science," includes among others: Voltaire, Marx, James, Freud, Faraday, Darwin, Russell & Whitehead, Hilbert, Gauss. I suspect that St. John's College is the only liberal arts college in America which requires of every student four years of laboratory science. It also requires four years of mathematics, four years of languages...
Early experiments with electricity and magnetism disturbed this mechanical view. Faraday and Oersted showed that a moving magnet produces an electric field, that a moving electric charge produces a magnetic field. The lines of force in these fields were not arranged in Newtonian straight lines but in curves. After curved fields in space came waves of energy. The wave theory of light, which had been opposed by Newton, was picked up again because it was the only way to explain certain phenomena-for example, the diffraction rings produced when light passes through a small aperture. Before electro-magnetic waves...
...colorless, odorless, nontoxic, non-inflammable gas one and one-half times heavier than air, carbon dioxide (CO2) was first obtained in liquid form by Faraday in 1834, first sold commercially in 1888. In 1899 annual U. S. production was some 12,000,000 lb. Today more than 300,000,000 lb. are sold yearly and Liquid Carbonic Corp. handles most of it. Made in 36 plants in the U. S. and Canada, its gas is delivered to 10,000 U. S. beverage bottlers in 400,000 steel cylinders. There is a steadily widening use for liquid carbonic in asbestos composition...
Historically Power goes back to Edison, Ohm and Faraday to trace the origins of the force it presents as a maladministered boon. Technically it begins with the definition of a kilowatt hour ("When this thousand-watt bulb burns for an hour, that's a kilowatt hour"). From then on, by means of a pedagogical disembodied Voice, cartoon and scenic lantern slides, motion pictures and dialog between fictional and actual characters, Power grows into a loud and lively indictment of the U. S. power business's many frauds and follies. By taking stock shares out of one pocket...
Citing Henry as an example of a great scientific organizer, Crowther said, "In total achievement Henry was the equal of Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Maxwell, and the other great scientists of the nineteenth century." During his thirty-two years as the first secretary, and later head, of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, Henry was responsible for its development...