Word: professor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor E. Wambaugh was re-elected president and W. E. Weaver '98, was elected secretary...
Immediately after the general meeting the board of directors met and filled vacancies as follows: From the Graduate School, A. S. Cushman; from 1900, W. B. Cutting. In addition to these, the board of directors is composed of the president and secretary ex-officio, Professor Taussig, Professor Grandgent, and Dr. Mallory from the Faculty, W. Munro L. S., J. R. Crocker '98, and H. B. Hayden...
...Professor Trowbridge expects to exhibit this apparatus at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences today at the Laboratory...
...Professor Trowbridge has lately been able to prove by this apparatus that the length of the spark is accurately proportional to the voltage. This fact, which has long been doubted by various German scientists, can be used to ascertain the voltage required to send a flash of lightning a given distance...
...past two years, Professor Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, has been perfecting a battery for electrical discharges. It is now the most powerful apparatus of its kind in the world, and has already been used in several investigations of the x-ray. It is the only battery strong enough to send a discharge through an x-ray tube; all other batteries send the spark around the tube. It has been used repeatedly to show the skeleton of the hand. An idea of its power can be had from the fact that it has a voltage...