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learned that the drill was not still in the process of being sharpened but the procedure had to be start- ed once again. The workman pointed out that some drills had broken, and even though new ones were [...] replaced the drill with one that was blunt, they brought some water to cool the metal, and they started making the horses walk again in their usual circle. After a while, Thompson noted that the metal [...] theory of heat and to show that heat was instead something immate- rial. Rumford went to his desk and started to write down his findings. He knew that his claim would meet severe opposition. Therefore, he decided
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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 [...] efficient way to insulate the human body. To summarize, Rumford can in retrospect be identified as a starting point for various develop- ment in the energy science – he carried out exper- iments that were related
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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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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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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
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life oc- curred when he chose Professor J. J. Thompson (known as JJ by his students) at Cambridge Uni- versity’s Cavendish Laboratory as his doctoral su- pervisor. Cambridge had just instituted the new [...] By 1898, at the age of 27, with JJ’s help, Rutherford obtained his first job as professor at McGill Uni- versity in Montreal, Canada. Finally, he was also able to marry his sweetheart, Mary, who had waited [...] published the details of his new model of the atom, but not too many people be- lieved him at the start. It remained up to Niels Bohr to join Rutherford and devise his Bohr atomic model, which was a refinement