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... for navigation marks and lighthouses. The 57-foot octagonal lighthouse, at Trinity Buoy Wharf, was built about 1860. Michael Faraday, scientific adviser to Trinity House, carried out electrical and optical experiments at the wharf, but the lighthouse ...
... occasion with an eccentric barber — George Boyd by name — which throws rather an interest- ing light ou the early life of Michael Faraday. George was over eighty years of age, aud a notable propagator of news and gossip. He wa» very deaf, writes Mr Maxwell ...
... at 1.0. 1.30— Gramophone Records. 2.ls—The Midland Studio Orchestra. 2.40—3. the Schools. Science. Professor Peacock Michael Faraday. 3.4s—Scottisn Studio Orchestra. Dixon Organ the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool. Time Signal at 4.45. s.ls—Children's Hour ...
... despise knowledge for its own sake, for could not tell in what way it might be useful us. The experiments of Humphrey Davy, Michael Faraday, and others, in electricity were undertaken in the interests of scientific truth, and their results had been far reaching ...
... who is wrongly accredited as the discoverer of wireless telegraphy. One of Lindsay's students was another famous man, Michael Faraday, no less! We Scots are loath to boast of national achievements, but we have slipped up badly here. Lindsay was an ordained ...
... the Rev. Frederick Maurice, of George Eliot, the father and.mother of Charles Dickens, of Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, Michael Faraday, The importation of frozen meat from New Zealand Australia, and the River Plate T, S ,» ' Last year 6,888,528 frozen ...
... Musicians and their Compositions. By J. R. Griffiths. Is Ud. Electricians and their Marvels. By Walter Jerrold, author Michael Faraday: Man of Science, Ac. Is lid. NEW POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES. Maps and Illustrations. Is we shall offer very large number of ...
... General News Bulletin. National programme. 9.15 —Scottish News Bulletin. Edinburgh programme. 9.2o—National Lecture— Michael Faraday, by Sir William H. Bragg. National programme. 10.5 —The 8.8.C. Orchestra conducted B. • al o O'Donnell. National programme ...
... always something new to impart to us in his own glowing and forcible language. His subject on this occasion is to be Michael Faraday: A Non-Scientific Lecture on a Scientific Slan. Sir SI. D. Conway, of London, a name familiar in the literary world, ...
... knowledge for its own sake, for we could not toll in what way it might useful to as. The experiment, of Humphrey Davy, Michael Faraday, aad others, ia electricity were uadertakaa in the intonate of aotentifia truth, their result* had been far reaching to ...
... Musicians and their Compositions. By J. R. Griffiths. Ud. Electricians and their Marvels. By Walter Jerrold, author of Michael Faraday: Man of Science,” Ac. Is lid. NEW POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES. Maps and Illustrations. Is lid shall offer a very large number ...
... town crying, I'm Inde, I'm Inde, I'm Inde-go Blue. I HERE the story of the eccentric Dundee barber who, when visiting Michael Faraday and watching him conducting experiment, became afraid and retreated with the words, Ye're no' canny, Faraday! Ye're ...