Word: volts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hydrogen ion concentration. But the differences in conductivity between good and bad blood are very slight. So the University of Pennsylvania researchers were obliged to amplify with radio tubes the weak current that blood can carry and invent a precision voltometer that shows 400 gradations between zero and one volt. The turning of a few switches shows the exact blood condition...
Husbandmen of northern New York State await, with an interest more vicarious than immediate, the results of an expensive experiment reported last week at the farms of Donald Woodward, gentleman farmer of Le Roy, N. Y. Mr. Woodward had his fields plowed by a share charged with 103,000 volts of electricity. Inventor Hamilton L. Coe of Pittsburgh had told Mr. Woodward that the current would electrocute weeds, grubs, soil bacteria. Crops, he said, would spring from the volt-purged ground in record time and abundance...
When Dr. Coolidge ordered his 350,000-volt current turned on, a prodigious stream of electrons leapt from the hot cathode, moving perhaps two miles per second. Rebounding from the metal cup about the cathode, they raced off down the 12-inch exit passage of the tube until, when they reached the "window," they were going some 150,000 m.p.s. (four-fifths the speed of light). Their volume was virtually undiminished as they shot through the thin nickel foil and out into heavy, molecular air, where their effects were at once visible and startling...
...commission, refused to speak until the gallant Colonel Crompton, his old friend and associate, roared out: "Your father orders you to speak!" Dr. Michael I. Pupin of Columbia University addressed the visitors, with great names upon his tongue for them to honor, the names of electricity's pioneers-Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Hertz, Kelvin, Helmholtz, Gauss, Coulomb...
...names Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Henry, Gauss, Coulomb, Joule are household gods, and they remind us that we have the same interest and worship at the altar of the same patron saints--Kelven, Helmholtz, Maxwell. Heitz, Sumens, Cramme, Paccenotte. We have the same household gods and the same patron saints. We are all one. So each one of these meetings looks more and more like a family gathering. I wish that the American Congress were here and the American Senate to watch our proceedings and learn that the scientist and the engineer have discovered the great secret--greater than anything...