"Spectroscope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quite willing to set ourselves up as standards until science came with spectroscope, telephone, microscope and Roentgen ray to force upon us the fact that we are tiny, undeveloped and insignificant creatures, with sense quite unreliable and totally unfit for ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard
... prism, is passed through the glowing vapor of certain substances, particular rays of light are absorbed, and their absence from the emerging fight is manifested by corresponding dark bands in the spectrum. The instrument by which the observations are made is the spectroscope. It is well known to most people that the solar spectrum itself contains certain dark bands of this sort, which are produced by vapors that can be identified by the position of the bands in the spectrum; and thus it is possible to ascertain something regarding ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 • Various
... the light of day; it may be that in the evidence of telepathy which the psychic researchers are accumulating, he is beginning to grope his way into a universal consciousness, which may come to include the joys and griefs of the inhabitants of Mars, and of the dark stars which the spectroscope and the telescope ...
— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair
... Sensitiveness of Dry Plates.—A full description of the new plan of Mr. G.F. WILLIAMS, for determining the sensitiveness of dry plates by the use of a small direct vision pocket spectroscope ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, Sep. 26, 1891 • Various
... atomic weight 132.9), one of the alkali metals. Its name is derived from the Lat. caesius, sky-blue, from two bright blue lines of its spectrum. It is of historical importance, since it was the first metal to be discovered by the aid of the spectroscope (R. Bunsen, Berlin Acad. Ber., 1860), although caesium salts had undoubtedly been examined before, but had been mistaken for potassium salts (see C.F. Plattner, Pog. Ann., 1846, p. 443, on the analysis of pollux and the subsequent work of F. Pisani, Comptes Rendus, 1864, 58, p. 714). Caesium ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various
... the spectroscope the smallest quantity of a gaseous or very volatile hydrocarbon, the Messrs. Negri introduce a small quantity of the gaseous mixture into a tube. This mixture should not contain oxygen, carbonic oxide, or carbonic acid; and the pressure ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various |
