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3. oldal - That there be printed of the Report on the Condition of the Smithsonian Institution, seven thousand copies ; five thousand copies for the use of the members of the House of Representatives, and two thousand for the use of the Institution. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, May 26, 1858.
11. oldal - 9. It is believed that the collections in natural history will increase by donation as rapidly as the income of the Institution can make provision for their reception, and, therefore, it will seldom be necessary to purchase articles of this kind. 8. Also, catalogues of memoirs, and of books
8. oldal - by the bequest, and that, therefore, all unnecessary expenditure on local objects would be a perversion of the trust. 12. The plan and dimensions of the building should be determined by the plan of organization, and not the converse. 14. Besides the foregoing considerations deduced immediately from the will of
93. oldal - should be increased to many hundred turns each ; which experiment, if I remember aright, was made on the same day with a battery and wire on hand, furnished I believe by myself, and it was found that while the original arrangement would only send the electric current through a few feet of wire, say
101. oldal - 4. in figure 4, which is an exact copy from the drawing in the Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c., vol. XLIII. By comparing figures 3 and 4 it will be seen that the helix employed by Sturgeon was of the same kind as that used by Arago ; instead, however, of
105. oldal - 7 7.) The mechanical arrangement for affecting this object was simply a steel bar, permanently magnetized, of about ten inches in length, supported on a pivot and placed with its north end between the two arms of a horseshoe magnet. When the latter was excited by the current, the end of the (?*) bar thus placed was attracted by one
88. oldal - a defence against the injurious deductions drawn from the deposition of Professor Joseph Henry, (in the several telegraph suits,) with a critical review of said deposition, and an examination of Professor Henry's alleged discoveries bearing upon the electro-magnetic telegraph." The first thing which strikes the reader of
11. oldal - 3. As examples of these treatises, expositions may be obtained of the present state of the several branches of knowledge mentioned in the table of reports. SECTION II. flan of organization, in accordance with the terms of the resolutions of the Board of Regents providing for the two modes of increasing and diffusing knowledge.
111. oldal - My whole attention, exclusive of my duties to the college, was devoted to original scientific investigations, and I left to others what I considered in a scientific view of subordinate importance the application of my discoveries to useful purposes in the arts. Besides this, I partook of the feeling
93. oldal - -Morse's great invention lay in the mechanical adaptation of a power to produce motion, and to increase or relax at will. It was only necessary for him to know that such a power existed for him to adapt mechanism to direct and control it. My