Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...encouragement of the study of American literature. Twenty-five dollars yearly will be awarded to that member of the junior or senior class who shall write the best essay upon a subject assigned in the field of American literature. The subject for the present year is "Benjamin Franklin as a man of letters...
During these ten years the additions to the college buildings and equipment have been most substantial. Franklin Lincoln, and Barnes halls, the gymnasium, half of the main building of Sibley college, and its shops and laboratories, besides some lesser buildings have been erected, while a magnificent library and a commodious chemical laboratory are now in construction. The benefactors of Cornell have been wisely obtained from tying up their gifts for special purposes. Nearly the whole of the annual income can be employed by the trustees as they deem most expedient. It is for this reason that Cornell has been able...
...Clerk Maxwell, namely, that heat, light, and electricity are all one and the same thing, and that we receive them all by electro-magnetic impulses transmitted through the ether from the sun. In the last one hundred years our ideas on physical subjects have immensely advanced. Benjamin Franklin's machine for producing electricity is a hundred times as large as the one we use today, yet ours is a hundred times as powerful. The electric light used to be seen only on the lecturer's table, but now his thunder has been stolen by the practical...
...Benjamin Franklin looked at the skies a hundred years ago to discover the nature of electricity, and we are doing the same thing now. What Franklin failed to see was that the discharge of electricity is not in one direction, but oscillatory. Josepe Henry noticed in 1835 that a Leyden jar gave out not one spark merely but several in succession. He discovered induction, and surmised wave motion, but he never thought of looking together for the source of that motion. It never occurred to him nor to us until very recently, that the electricity is not in the wires...
...Christine Ladd Franklin has been made a fellow of Johns Hopkins University for her achievements in mathematics...