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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
actical application to illuminating purposes. The lights of the natural lanterns carried by fireflies, glow-worms, and some species of nocturnal moths, may be considered as electric lights. Though classed as phosphorescent, some of them are intermittent, and we suppose the nervous action by which they are flashed into brilliancy to be in the nature of what we call a voltaic impulse from the battery. — the brain. The electric light was first brought into notice in 1846. The patent of Greener and Staite of that year embraced an arrangement whereby small lumps of pure carbon, inclosed in air-tight vessels, were rendered luminous by currents of galvanic electricity. Two small cylinders or bits of pure carbon were placed nearly in contact with their points toward each other, and maintained at a constantly equal distance apart by means of clockwork, which slowly advanced them as they were consumed by combustion. Through these the current of a galvanic battery was transmitted, so t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The last chapter in the history of Reconstruction in South Carolina— administration of D. H. Chamberlain. (search)
lature met as usual in December. The great event of this session was to be the election of judges. Judge Reed had been elected to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Graham, and Shaw to supply that occasioned by the death of Judge Greener. It was supposed that the term of office of these judges would expire with that of the judges to whose places they succeeded. There was also a third vacancy in the Southern circuit. Elliott determined that the Radical vote should be given lain himself was loudest in denouncing the reformation which was aimed at. In 1874, availing themselves of a split in the Republican party, they rallied to the aid of that faction which seemed less steeped in corruption and gave their vote to Judge Greener against Chamberlain. But the man they had opposed seemed determined to make a reality of the promise of reform which had, as a matter of course, been brought forward as their platform, and they gave the Governor the aid of a steady, consiste