Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 25Metcalf and Company, 1890 - Humanities Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell. |
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Page 238 - ACADEMY sary, on account of the self-induction of the measuring circuit, always to read either on opening or on closing the key. In our experiments the latter alternative was chosen. The results were plotted as previously by using the relative strength of the field as expressed by tangents of the magnetometer deflections as ordinates, and the induced currents in terms of an arbitrary unit as abscissas. The deflection of the ballistic galvanometer used was proportional to the strength of the transient...
Page 324 - In his later life he frequently said that in his early days he never had a thought of asking what subjects he was most fond of, but studied what he was told to study. At the age of fourteen he was examined and was admitted to Yale College, but owing to feeble health he waited another year before actually entering a class. In college he appears to have been about equally proficient in all of the studies, taking a good rank as a scholar, and maintaining it through his college course.
Page 348 - And indeed when we consider heat not as a substance, but as a state of vibration, there appears to be no reason why it should not be induced by an action of a simply mechanical character, such, for instance, as is presented in the revolution of a coil of wire before the poles of a permanent magnet.
Page 328 - I am inclined to believe that the introduction of this single method of representing and discussing the phenomena of a storm was the greatest of the services which our colleague rendered to science. This method is at the foundation of what is sometimes called
Page 326 - Williamstown an Observatory had been constructed, but it was used for instruction, not for original work. At Washington Lieutenant Gilliss, and at Dorchester Mr. Bond, were commissioned by the government in 1838 to observe moon culminations in correspondence with the observers in the Wilkes exploring expedition for determining their longitude. These two prospective sets of observations, both of them under government auspices and pay, were the only signs of systematic astronomical activity in the...
Page 328 - Institution, and he determined to make American meteorology one of the leading subjects of investigation to be aided by the Institution. At Professor Henry's request, Professor Loomis prepared a report upon the meteorology of the United States, in which he showed what advantages society might expect from the study of...
Page 326 - ... Georgetown Observatory building had been erected. Professor Loomis's work at Hudson should be measured by what others were doing at the time, rather than by the larger performance of to-day. In the summer of 1844, the year in which Professor Loomis came to New York, a new method in Astronomy had its first beginnings. The telegraph line had just been built between Baltimore and Washington, and Captain Wilkes at Baltimore compared his chronometer by telegraph with one at Washington, and so determined...
Page 70 - ... the anvil electrode was too small to be observed. Under these circumstances the observed motion of the hammer electrode, as measured by the micrometer, was the motion of this relatively to the anvil electrode, which is of course the quantity to be determined rather than the actual excursion of the hammer electrode. The microphone was placed in circuit with a battery and the primary of an induction coil, whose secondary contained a receiving telephone. With this arrangement the effect on the ear...
Page 326 - It may not seem a very large output of work in six years' time to have determined the location of the observatory, and to have observed five comets. But we must remember that the telegraph had not then been mvented, that the exact determination of the longitude of a single point in the Western country had a higher value then than it can have now, and that it could be obtained only by slow and tedious methods. These were moreover, days of small things in astronomy in this country. At Yale College...
Page 328 - ... Bay Company in the regions to the north of us, and finally a thorough discussion of the observations collected. A siege of three years was contemplated. In the history of the several steps that finally led to the establishment of the United States Signal Service, this report has an important place. The scheme laid down by Professor Loomis was in part followed out by the Institution. But the fragmentary character of the observations, the want of systematic distribution of the places of the observers,...