 | John Frederick William Herschel - Ophthalmology - 1867 - 534 pages
...private messages of their own to convey. At Washington and Philadelphia, in America, the telegraph signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station...followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph, which, as my hearers perhaps know, writes down the message upon chemically prepared paper. (39.) I must now... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Ophthalmology - 1867 - 552 pages
...private messages of their own to convey. At Washington and Philadelphia, in America, the telegraph signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station...followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph, which, as my hearers perhaps know, writes down the message upon chemically prepared paper. (39.) I must now... | |
 | William Mattieu Williams - Astronomy - 1870 - 254 pages
...private messages of their own to convey. At Washington and Philadelphia, in America, the telegraph signalmen received severe electric shocks. At a station...followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph, which, as my hearers perhaps know, writes down the message upon chemically prepared paper."* 197. As all these... | |
 | American literature - 1885 - 980 pages
...Washington and Philadelphia, in America, the telegraphic signal men received severe electric shocks. At Boston, in North America, a flame of fire followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph." (Such electric disturbances, it may be mentioned, are called "electric storms," though when they occur... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Eclipses - 1871 - 552 pages
...private messages of their own to convey. At AVashington and Philadelphia, in America, the telegraphic signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station...electric telegraph (which writes down the message upon chemicallyprepared paper).' It is demonstrated then that some association exists between the disturbance... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Eclipses - 1871 - 550 pages
...Philadelphia, in 'America, the telegraphic signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station in Xonvay, the telegraphic apparatus was set fire to ; and at...electric telegraph (which writes down the message upon chemicallyprepared paper).' It is demonstrated then that some association exists between the disturbance... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 806 pages
...private messages of their own to convey. At Washington and Philadelphia, in America, the telegraphic signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station...fire followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph." The establishment of so important a fact as the periodicity of the phenomenon of solar spots, and a... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 798 pages
...private messages of their own to convey. At "Washington and Philadelphia, in America, the telegraphic signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station...fire followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph." The establishment of so important a fact as the periodicity of the . phenomenon of solar spots, and... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1876 - 696 pages
...places the telegraphic wires struck work. At Washington and Philadelphia, in America, the telegraph signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station in Norway the telegraphic apparatus wad set fire to ; and at Boston, in North America, a flame of fire followed the pen of Bain'selectric... | |
 | Arabella Burton Buckley - Science - 1876 - 532 pages
...electric shocks; a telegraphic apparatus in Norway was set on fire, and a stream of electric light followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph, which writes down the message on chemically prepared paper. Moreover, beautiful auroras were seen in both hemispheres, and these... | |
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America, the electric signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station in Norway the telegraphic apparatus was set fire to ; and at Boston, in North America, a flame of fire followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph, which writes down the... 
