Word: metallic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most part, applications of three sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable new materials. Teeth used to be filled with gold, or other pure metal, chiefly in the form of foil, but now gold and other pure metals are used in many different forms. Alloys, or mixtures of metals not easily oxidized, are also available. Amalgams have come into use, and above all, very serviceable cements have been invented by German industrial chemists; and these cements...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "The Passage of Electricity from a Metal to a Gas." Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...placed recently in the Game Room. The table is of quartered oak with a solid base, supporting on two stout columns an oblong top. The playing board, bordered by a narrow strip of rosewood, is inlaid with black and white squares. The board is surrounded by 25 small fancy metal shields on which will be engraved the names of future winners of the University championship...
...Berlin, Wednesday--Phonographic records of Emperor William's voice on metal matrices will be the first deposits made in the phonographic archives which are to be kept at Harvard University, and in the Congressional Library and the National Museum at Washington. The Emperor, on the application of Professor Edward W. Scripture, the psychologist of Yale University, through the United States ambassador here, has given two examples of his voice for permanent preservation. The first cylinder, made especially for Harvard University, contains observations on Frederick the Great. The other was a short disquisition on 'Fortitude in Pain.' These archives of voices...
...same series in the mezzotint state. 200 phototype reproductions of drawings by Rembrandt have been procured, but the resources of the Museum have been so small that practically no other additions to the collection of photographs have been made. To the Randall Collection has been added a metal engraving by Vitale, a gift from Mrs. F. D. Bergen. In making additions to the print collections the Museum endeavors primarily to fill the most important gaps in the class of original works, that is, engravings by artists executing their own designs on wood and metal--chiefly early German and Italian engravers...