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    Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS (19 June 1851 – 12 June 1916) was an English professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury,...
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    a book on infinitesimal calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson. The original text continues to be available as of 2008 from Macmillan...
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    monochrome rainbow can leave a highly dramatic effect. In July 1877, Silvanus P. Thompson witnessed a red and orange rainbow over Lake Lucerne in Switzerland:...
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  • New York Shirley Thompson, British composer, conductor and violinist Silvanus P. Thompson (1851–1916), English physicist Siobhan Thompson (born 1984), British-American...
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  • Silvanus is a masculine given name. Notable people and characters with the name include: Silas or Silvanus (fl. 1st century AD), an early Christian and...
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  • Cosimo. ISBN 9781602063792. Thompson, Silvanus P. (October 1914). Calculus Made Easy (second, enlarged ed.). New York: The Macmillan Company. p. 15....
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  • such as Edward Emerson Barnard, Lord Kelvin, Wilhelm Röntgen, and Silvanus P. Thompson, and heads of state such as Queen Victoria, U.S. President William...
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    Pieter van der Aa, 1690), Chapter 1. C. Huygens (1690), translated by Silvanus P. Thompson (1912), Treatise on Light, London: Macmillan, 1912; Project Gutenberg...
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    Electricity - William and Robert Chambers, London and Edinburgh 1866 Silvanus P. Thompson, Elementary Lessons in electricity and Magnetism. - Macmillan and...
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    archive.org/details/bub_gb_kVxsaYdZaaoC C. Huygens (translated by Silvanus P. Thompson), Treatise on Light, London: Macmillan, 1912; archive...
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  • (2008). Calculus (11th ed.). Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-321-48987-6. Thompson, Silvanus P.; Gardner, Martin (1998). Calculus Made Easy. ISBN 978-0-312-18548-0...
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    Nostrand. p. 471., translated from German by Nathaniel Keith Dynamo-Electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1901...
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    May 1902, pp. 556–58) and "Wireless Telegraphy: A Rejoinder" from Silvanus P. Thompson (10 May 1902, pp. 598–99) Lodovico Gualandi. "Marconi e lo Stravolgimento...
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  • induction motor, Tesla coil, polyphase transmission systems, transformer Silvanus P. Thompson Educator, author, electrical machinery, X-ray technology, radio Elihu...
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    Ford Thompson (31 August 1856 – 9 December 1906) was an English botanist and temperance activist. The daughter of Quaker botanist Silvanus Thompson (1818–1881)...
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    1690), translated by Silvanus P. Thompson as Treatise on Light (London: Macmillan, 1912; Project Gutenberg edition, 2005), p.19. Heavens, O. S.; Ditchburn...
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  • accuracy for many commercial purposes. The name was first applied by Silvanus P. Thompson to an apparatus devised by himself in 1890, which indicates the mechanical...
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    spars are produced in mines. — De Magnete, English translation by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 1900 Gilbert argued that electricity and magnetism were not the...
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  • Huygens, Treatise on Light (Leiden: Van der Aa, 1690), translated by Silvanus P. Thompson, London: Macmillan, 1912, archive.org/details/treatiseonlight031310mbp;...
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    Usage is attested the same year by Silvanus P. Thompson in the first edition of Dynamo-Electric Machinery. Thompson motivates the term as follows: Just...
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  • J. E. Harold Terry (1885–1939), novelist, playwright and critic Silvanus P. Thompson (1851–1916), author and electrical engineer Charles Whiting (1926–2007)...
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    Peabody Louis Freeland Post Walter Rauschenbusch Raymond A. Spruance Silvanus P. Thompson Fiske Warren Alfred Russel Wallace Joseph Fels Vivienne Westwood...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of the telephone. Silvanus P. Thompson - Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone A Biographical Sketch,...
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    S2CID 144988108. Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (1910). The life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. London: Macmillan. p. 723. OCLC 5894345318. Lindley, p. 259...
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  • 3 Compayne Gardens with his first wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot Silvanus P. Thompson, physicist, who lived on Chislett Road (now Compayne Gardens) Mina...
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  • Topics on Calculus at PlanetMath. Calculus Made Easy (1914) by Silvanus P. Thompson Full text in PDF Calculus.org: The Calculus page at University of...
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    Telegraphy: A Rejoinder. To the Editor of the Saturday Review," Silvanus P. Thompson. Gualandi, Lodovico (26 June 2000). "Narconi e Lo Stravolgimenti...
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    French (1990), pp. 120–21. Huygens (1690), pp. 8–9. Translation by Silvanus P. Thompson. Godin and Fonetenelle (1729–34). "Il suit des Observations de Mr...
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    December 2003. Retrieved 26 February 2011. Legat, 1862. Casson, p. 96. Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (1883). Philipp Reis: inventor of the telephone: A biographical...
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    of fractals"), the physicist and electrical engineer Silvanus P. Thompson, the historian A. J. P. Taylor, the actor-manager Brian Rix, the applied linguist...
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