Word: sparks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 of an electrical apparatus...
WANTED.- Mate for a medium sized active thoroughbred horse, with high action. Color no object. Address W. B. Noble, 64 Spark...
...Hill, Gr.; Eben Wright, S. S.; from '89, G. S. Howe, J. M. Newell, J. H. Proctor, I. A. Ruland, C. M. Thayer, C. Warren, M. Whitridge, M. Winkler, G. E. Wright. The society will be entertained on Thursday evening by Mr. Justin Winsor at his house, 74 Spark street...
...discoveries in electricity and then explained the theory of the are and incandescent lights. Electricity has been known to mankind for more than 2,000 year, but only during the last ten years has it been used practically for lighting. The electricity generated by friction, when discharged gives a spark of great brilliancy but of very short duration. The discoveries in chemical electricity, by Galvani, and in induced currents, by Faraday, were the greatest strides in our knowledge of the properties of electricity...
Caught from a spark and fanned by every gale...