Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 470
N. S. ELECTRICITY APPLIED TO THE ARTS. 465 accompanying engraving represents a highly-magnifiedgroup. It includes Forammifera^ beings which secretemany-chambered calcareous shells, each the habitationof a group of individuals so minute as to require thehighest powers of the best microscope to… … Highly-magnified animals and plants brought up from the Atlantic Telegraphplateau. The Applications of Electricity to the Arts are too numerous to bespecified here; but a few of the more prominent instances must benoticed. The new arrangement of Franklins discovery by Sir SnowHarris, in lightning…
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