Word: sparks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Trowbridge has lately been able to prove by this apparatus that the length of the spark is accurately proportional to the voltage. This fact, which has long been doubted by various German scientists, can be used to ascertain the voltage required to send a flash of lightning a given distance...
...electrical discharges. It is now the most powerful apparatus of its kind in the world, and has already been used in several investigations of the x-ray. It is the only battery strong enough to send a discharge through an x-ray tube; all other batteries send the spark around the tube. It has been used repeatedly to show the skeleton of the hand. An idea of its power can be had from the fact that it has a voltage of 1,200,000, and the voltage required to run an electric car is only 500. This instrument can evolve...
...three stories form the bulk of the number. G. H. Scull '98 has one of his strong but ugly Western sketches, entitled "A Little Turn from the Road." The story is characteristically vivid. A spark of sentiment shines throngh the drizzle of the weather and the unpleasantness of the characters. In the same vein, but with decidely more charm and less intenseness, is "An Emigration in the West," by a new contributor to the "Advocate," H. Sayre...
...results of Professor Trowbridge's experiments with the electrical spark, which he has been able to produce with the aid of his powerful storage battery, have created a wide-spread interest in the world of science and he has received most flattering letters from many of the leading physicists of the country...
...found that just ten thousand volts are necessary to produce the so-called X-rays. His discoveries have broken up the old theory that the carbons in an are light must be united to start the flow of light; it seems that, as a matter of fact, the first spark overcomes the atmospheric resistance and the column of air thus heated conducts the following stream of light...