Word: leyden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Benjamin Franklin looked at the skies a hundred years ago to discover the nature of electricity, and we are doing the same thing now. What Franklin failed to see was that the discharge of electricity is not in one direction, but oscillatory. Josepe Henry noticed in 1835 that a Leyden jar gave out not one spark merely but several in succession. He discovered induction, and surmised wave motion, but he never thought of looking together for the source of that motion. It never occurred to him nor to us until very recently, that the electricity is not in the wires...
...Leyden University in Holland is said to be the richest in the world. It possesses real estate which is worth...
...Leyden University, in Holland, is the richest in the world. Its real estate alone is said to be worth...
...Leyden University, in Holland, is the richest in the world. Its real estate alone is said to be worth four million dollars...
...first class ever graduated, that of 1642. Out of the nine graduates, six were distinguished as follows : "One was sent both by Cromwell and Charles II., as minister to the states General of Holland. One became a follow of a college at Oxford ; two received degrees in medicine at Leyden and Padua ; one received a degree of divinity at Oxford, then as now, the greatest academically distinction to which an English theologian can attain...