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...famed and useful Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852, "so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition." His son John Lewis Roget enlarged and improved the Thesaurus in new editions until his death in 1908. John Lewis' son, Samuel Romilly Roget, physicist who did important work on the "aging"' and electro magnetic qualities of iron, continued the family revisions until 1911. Since then this reference book has been any one's to republish. U. S. publishers are Thomas Y Crowell Co., Theo. E. Schulte, E. P. Dutton & Co., Longmans, Green...
Died. Marcia Millikan, I, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. Clark Millikan, granddaughter of famed Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan; of strangulation when a screen fell on her throat as she lay in her crib at her grandparents' home in San Marino, Calif...
...fuel, bald, reserved Physicist Goddard, 47, once utilized common black powder, found it lacked power, then developed a new fuel. One pound of his new propellant, an explosive mixture of liquid hydrogen and oxygen, is equivalent to 50 Ibs. of gun powder...
This was probably the greatest work of Physicist Faraday. Greatest contribution of Metaphysician Faraday was his concept that all physical phenomena are interrelated. Of this, he wrote in his diary...
...will doubtless throw scores of color matchers out of work. It will perform their function with more exactness, will cost less and, biggest advantage of all, it will not depend on daylight for its accuracy. The heart of the machine, invented by New York University's able young physicist Dr. Harold Horton Sheldon, is a photoelectric cell...