Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Profs. Thomson, of Cambridge Univ. and Richardson, -. of Kings College, London−The essence of long-distance and wireless telephony...
...three men friends for dinner. He orders well, discriminatingly. He enjoys his meal in leisure. Toward its close he rises to pay calls on half a dozen distinguished friends at neighboring tables. Here he speaks with a gentleman and his wife. They are perhaps Mr. and Mrs. James M. Thomson, son-in-law and daughter of the late Champ Clark. At another table, he pauses to chat with a handsome man in his fifties; certainly it is James W. Gerard. He returns to his table and sips his coffee...
...Thomson's first important invention dates from 1876-a centrifugal separator for fluids of different density. He achieved the thorough lamination of armature cores, and in 1889 greatly improved electric-lighting apparatus. Other inventions...
Remarkable as is Benjamin G. Lamme's record of 150 U. S. electrical patents, Dr. Elihu Thomson...
...Baron William Thomson Kelvin, born in Belfast in 1824, was the most eminent physicist of his time. He published over 300 original papers covering every branch of physical science. He made possible submarine telegraphy, and invented practically all the instruments used by electrical engineers for measurement...