Author: Henry Augustus RowlandPublisher:
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Category : Dividing engines
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland, Johns Hopkins University, 1876-1901
Author: Henry Augustus RowlandPublisher:
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Category : Dividing engines
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland ...
Author: Henry Augustus RowlandPublisher:
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Category : Dividing-engine
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland ...
Author: Henry Augustus RowlandPublisher:
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Category : Dividing-engine
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland, Johns Hopkins University, 1876-1901
Author: Henry Augustus RowlandPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022690158
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland is a fascinating collection of papers by one of the most important physicists of the late 19th century. Rowland's work on magnetic fields, spectroscopy, and other topics was groundbreaking, and his influence can still be felt today. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of science and the development of modern physics. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland (Classic Reprint)
Author: Henry Augustus RowlandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330541043
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Excerpt from The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland
Author: The John Hopkins UniversityPublisher:
ISBN: 9781410200938
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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This text is not an autobiography or a memoirs, but the proofs and works of an extraordinary man who held doctorates from John Hopkins University, Yale and Princeton. After his death in 1901, Johns Hopkins University chose to honor their colleague by publishing his life=s work. Included in this book are the ideas, proofs, addresses, illustrations and comments of Henry Augustus Rowland.Henry A. Rowland (1848-1901)was pronounced Athe foremost scientist America has yet produced@ by the president of the National Academy of Sciences in 1924, and achieved high recognition as an expert on electricity Rowland's research helped to demonstrate that electric currents are the source of magnetic fields, to determine the value of the Ohm (a unit of electrical resistance), and to show that specific heat (the ability of a substance of absorb heat as measured by the increase in temperature per unit of heat absorbed) varies with temperature. The first professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, he is best remembered for the invention and ruling of concave spectral grating, an instrument of unprecedented precision and ease of use. At the Paris Exposition of 1890 he won grand prize for spectral grating and revision of the solar spectrum.He worked in both mathematical and experimental physics and had significant success in precise measurements of physical constants. He designed many types of measuring instruments, several of which were adopted for commercial use. . He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, to the Royal Society of London and to the French Academy of Sciences. In 1899, Rowland became the first president of the American Physical Society.Rowland=s contributions to experimental physics were enhanced by his understanding of practical mechanics, his mathematical aptitude, and his manual dexterity.
PHYSICAL PAPERS OF HENRY AUGUS
Author: Henry Augustus 1848-1901 RowlandPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781363734641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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The Physical Papers of Henry Augustus Rowland ...
Author: Henry Augustus RowlandPublisher:
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Category : Dividing-engine
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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The Physical Papers
Author: Henry Augustus RowlandPublisher:
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Category : Dividing-engine
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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The Values of Precision
Author: M. Norton WisePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691218129
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Values of Precision examines how exactitude has come to occupy such a prominent place in Western culture. What has been the value of numerical values? Beginning with the late eighteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, the essays in this volume support the view that centralizing states--with their increasingly widespread bureaucracies for managing trade, taxation, and armies--and large-scale commercial enterprises--with their requirements for standardization and mass production--have been the major promoters of numerical precision. Taking advantage of the resources available, scientists and engineers have entered a symbiotic relationship with state and industry, which in turn has led to increasingly refined measures in ever-widening domains of the natural and social world. At the heart of this book, therefore, is an inquiry into the capacity of numbers and instruments to travel across boundaries of culture and materials. Many of the papers focus attention on disagreements about the significance and the credibility of particular sorts of measurements deployed to support particular claims, as in the measures of the population of France, the electrical resistance of copper, or the solvency of insurance companies. At the same time they display the deeply cultural character of precision values. Contributors to the volume include Ken Alder, Graeme J. N. Gooday, Jan Golinski, Frederic L. Holmes, Kathryn M. Olesko, Theodore M. Porter, Andrea Rusnock, Simon Schaffer, George Sweetnam, Andrew Warwick, and M. Norton Wise.