 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1793 - 710 pages
...cylinder and electrometer in a diftant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the correfponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate : from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1794 - 652 pages
...-correfponding motions of the ball, writes down, the words they indicate : from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in theeffeil, a correfpondence might be carried on at any diftance : within and without a befieged town,... | |
 | 1794 - 540 pages
...cylinder and electrometer in a diftant apartment, and his wife, by remarking the correfponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | England - 1855 - 782 pages
...cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by marking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Boys - 1833 - 502 pages
...indicate ; from which it appears that he has formed an Alphabet qf Motion. As the length of the conducting wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on at any distance, as for example, within or without a besieged town ; or, for purposes much more interesting and useful.... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1893 - 1182 pages
...cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from...it appears, he has formed an alphabet of motions." The length of the wire was found to make no difference. At Charenton, near Paris, he sees I'ficole... | |
 | Science - 1846 - 438 pages
...cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate : from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | Charles Maybury Archer - Anecdotes - 1848 - 292 pages
...cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate ; from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...cylinder and electrometer, in a distant apartment, and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate —...motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference, a correspondence might bo carried on at a distance — within or without a besieged town, for instance... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment, and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate, from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of wire makes no difference in the effect,... | |
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... he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball : a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment, and his wife by... 
