Electricity is the name given to an invisible agent known to us only by its attendant phenomena and by various manifestations called electrical. These manifestations, at first obscure and even mysterious, are now well understood. Indeed its great importance to mankind can only be realized when we remember that it...
The problem of the economical transmission of power has long been a serious one to the engineer. Formerly the power had to be generated on or near the spot where it was to be used, but now the advance that has been made in Electrical Engineering has largely done away...
Few discoveries of any importance have been the result of a moment's happy coincidence; rather have they been the fruit of many hours of tedious thought and experiment. This is especially true in the realm of organic chemistry. Here, where progress is made only by the most painstaking experimentation, extensive...
Pursuant to certain complaints of serious injury by wood-boring insects to girdled cypress timber in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, the Bureau of Entomology began a series of experiments and investigations with special trees girdled on definite dates in every month of the year, as well as with those...
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