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- In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a…
- All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
- The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty…
- I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear…
- The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the…
- Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace,…
- Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed…
- The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like…
- In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin…
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