Word: thomson
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...Thomson, née Clark...
...Elihu Thomson, dean of American electrical engineers, inventor of the first practical dynamo, of electric welding, etc.; founder of and consultant to the Thomson-Houston Co., and the General Electric...
Kelvin Medal. Dr. Elihu Thomson, first recipient of the Edison Medal, was awarded the Kelvin Gold Medal, one of the highest British scientific honors. It was founded in 1914 by British and American engineers, and is awarded triennially by the presidents of the representative British societies. Dr. W. C. Unwin, leading hydraulic engineer of England, was the only previous winner. The Electrical World, in commenting, says of Elihu Thomson: "The 700 patents issued to him by the U. S. are a monument to his inventive work, which has extended to almost every field of electrical application...
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AIR, Brigadier General C. B. Thomson. He was attached to the Supreme War Council 'during...
...that all matter is made up of one fundamental stuff--hydrogen. The laws of conservation of mass and energy, and the law of limited transmutability of matter, too, are in a state of flux. Calvin Page disregards completely the efforts of such eminent workers as Rutherford, Aston, J. J. Thomson, Soddy, and Millikan, and boldly launches forth upon the exploitation of his formula, phlogistic in its nature, intended to explain all natural phenomena in a "common-sense" way. He is backed by no experimental evidence whatever; the treatise is purely philosophical and deductive, reminding one of the works...