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nature and he often carried out bar- ometrical and meteorological observations. In 1754, Antoine started attending Collège des Quatre Nations (Collège Mazarin), which was known for its advanced teaching [...] 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 [...] person was subjected to. Firstly the person was at rest, and secondly he/she was at work”. Lavoisier started to refer to his inferences from the experiment. “I assumed that the purpose of the human respiration
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John received a good gen- eral education. However, he soon left school and started helping his father. When John was 12, he started working as a teacher in a local school. He earned his living and provided [...] 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
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John received a good gen- eral education. However, he soon left school and started helping his father. When John was 12, he started working as a teacher in a local school. He earned his living and provided
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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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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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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