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examples: air was considered to be an element until well into the 18th century when several chemists started almost simultaneously their study of pneumat- ics and were able to show that air was a combi- nation [...] Klassen with the support the European Commission (project 518094-LLP-1-2011-1-GR-COMENIUS-CMP) and The Uni- versity of Winnipeg, Canada, and is based, in part, on His- torical Background: The Development of
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were chemicals and ap- paratuses on the table. However, this time things would be different. Dalton started to talk, and he talked about the new, quantitative approach in chemistry: He stressed that there [...] ” asked Smythe. “Why?” – this was a thought that had never come to Dalton’s mind. “Why?” Dalton started to think, and stood silent in the classroom. “Why?” None of the writings of the modern chemists was [...] theatre of the Royal Institution – the seats were well occupied, there was a good audience. Dal- ton started to describe his first experiments, gave the numbers of the quantitative analysis, and finally drew
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1888, to Taranaki, also for flax milling. At the age of 10, Ernest read his first science book and started performing his first experiments. In 1887, Ernest won a scholarship to Nelson Col- lege, an all-boys [...] school teacher, but after multiple failed attempts to obtain a per- manent teaching position, he started doing re- search in the field of electrical science. At the time, there were scholarships initiated [...] model of the atom. In 1919, Rutherford arrived in Cambridge, where he became the Director of Cambridge Uni- versity’s Cavendish Laboratory. It was there that he gained international fame. Twice he spoke in
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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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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 [...] 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 [...] 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
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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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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 [...] rather thought, that the void inside the hemispheres re- sembles the same thing, which fulfills the uni- verse. The theories of Nikolaus Kopernikus (1473- 1543) and Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) ques- tioned [...] 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
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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