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hoses and nozzles. Finally the barrel was sealed, the pump was mounted and Otto gave the starting shot. The men started to pump. Relatively soon they were groaning because it became harder and hard- er to [...] walked, no he hurried home (he didn’t run because that was not proper for a man of his sta- tus). He started to think- a barrel could be sealed when it was painted thickly with pitch. And the fire fighters’ [...] that an empty barrel wouldn’t have to be sealed at all because nothing could come out of it. Otto started to lose his pa- tience: “If nothing is in it we have to prevent something from entering the barrel
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In 1632, when Magdeburg was taken over by Swedish people, he came back to his homecity, where he started to work in the city’s administration. During the following ten years, he was involved in rebuilding [...] was the creating of vacuum by pumping the water out of the hermetically closed wooden barrel. He started to use metal vessels in the following experiments. The first attempt with the copper sphere ended
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very often end up with loud explo- sions, sometimes the boom is so huge, that all the dogs nearby start to bark.’ Peter, John, Paul and Henry exclaimed at the same moment: ‘we would like to go for this [...] lecture. Professor Georg Christoph Lichtenberg walked onto the platform, because of his height, and he started stately: ‘during today’s lecture we will find out how and what for we can use a simple physical device [...] electrophorus, I built several ones, the biggest one with the diameter of around 2 me- ters. Then, I started to repeat the experiments with discharging electrophorus and because my labora- tory was full of
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loud explosions, adding that “sometimes the bang is so loud that the dogs in the neighbouring parish start to bark”. In his experiments helped him Mikołaj Bogusław Ciechański (1737 – 1828), who was a Polish
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was a device that would be useful to have another attraction in his demon- strations. Lichtenberg started making several electrophori, the largest with a diameter of approximately 2m. One of the things he
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not really waiting for him to start, but seemingly more eager for him to stop. He seemed to see disinterest in most of the faces that were looking at him. Before starting his communication, Joule took [...] a direct ratio between the mechanical work and the heat that can be produced by the work. Joule started to talk, and while he was talking he felt more and more that his initial perception of the audience’s [...] draw his conclusion. When he stopped, there was initially silence, but then a young man in the back started to raise questions. Joule did not know this man, yet, from his questions he realized that the man
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not really waiting for him to start, but seemingly more eager for him to stop. He seemed to see disinterest in most of the faces that were looking at him. Before starting his communication, Joule took [...] establishing his work, but also William Thomson, who later became Lord Kelvin. Yet, Joule himself did not start from scratch and par- ticularly referred to the work of Benjamin Thomp- son, Count Rumford, who carried [...] distance. Due to the absorption of radiant heat and the resulting different pressure, the alcohol drop starts to move. The experimenter increases the distance between the stronger heat source and the thermoscope
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absent mother and dead father. In 1914, after finishing the science-maths high school, Irene Curie started her studies at the faculty of the Sciences at the University of Paris. In the middle of 1916, she [...] recommendation, Joliot was given the job in the Radium Institute. After the marriage, both spouses started their research. Their co-operation was easier thanks to their common interests and their infinite [...] (4) become the source of another radiation after being bombarded with the alpha radiation, and they start to act like radioactive elements. After removing the source of the alpha radiation, these elements
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was transformed into a respective amount of heat? Could that also be the case with electricity? He started to think about how to examine these connections. About three years after the day the initial idea [...] temperature, then he controlled the room temperature and gave his workman a nod – the experiment could start. Some thirty minutes later, Joule reinserted the thermometer into the water and waited for the reading
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other evidence was produced that questioned the indivisible character of the atom. In actuality, the starting point was research that, in retrospect, could be taken as further evidence for the atomic theory [...] with the support of the European Commission (project 518094-LLP-1-2011-1-GR-COMENIUS-CMP) and the Uni- versity of Flensburg, Germany. This publication reflects only the views of the author, and the Commission