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The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
o causes existing outside of our atmosphere,—a conclusion which has been since amply confirmed. Melville, in 1752, noticed the yellow flame due to sodia; and in 1822 Sir John Herschel remarked that the colors contributed by different objects to flame afford in many instances a ready and neat way of detecting extremely minute quantities of them. Mr. Fox Talbot, in 1834. distinguishes the difference between the red lines produced by the flames of strontia and lithia, and in 1845 Professor W. A. Miller experimented upon the spectra of the alkaline earth metals. Professor Bunsen, however, so far advanced the subject that he, in conjunction with Kirchoff, may be almost said to have invented spectrum analysis as it now exists. Through its instrumentality Bunsen discovered, in 1860, the new metals caesium and rubidium; Crookes, in 1861, discovered thallium; and in 1864 Reich and Richter discovered indium. In Fig. 5357, A represents the improved spectroscope of Steinheil. It c
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Passengers per Steamship Yorktown, Parrish, Master, from New York. Jas. M. Griffin, Geo. S. Ferriss, H. B. Ferrise, Geo. W. Ross. Thos. Bell, W. C. Gifford, John Stemmitz. Jno. Wynant, Mrs. Fisher and child, Thos. W. Lyon, A. H. Godwin, Thos. Crelin. W. A. Miller, R. S. Kellong, D. Petty, Mrs. Crowley, Mrs. Rosenburg, F. R. Surfleet, Mrs. Taggett, Mrs. Capt. Cope. Mrs. R. H. Veghte, John H. Smack, Geo. Gifford, N. Dayton, and 4 in steerage. Also, from Norfolk — Thos. Nash, Jr., R. M. Taylor, Sidney Strother, E. Bolbringer.
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sixth North Carolina Regiment. (search)
nding.--Privates Jas. P. Stewart, and James Simpson, killed; privates W. P. White, mortally wounded; privates Eldridge G. Thompson and W. P. Gouge, severely wounded; private Jos. B. Thompson, ear shot off; and Jas. G. Watson, slightly wounded. Company G, Capt. Craige, commanding.--Privates G. Noah, A. B. Corriher, J. R. Corriher, J. S. Smith, Jason D. Setzer, Jno. Hess and Jacob Safrit, killed; privates John Howard and N. Lindsay Dancy, severely wounded; privates W. Rufus Owen, Henry W. A. Miller, Jacob W. Miller, and Bartlett Allen, slightly wounded. Company H, Capt. Mitchell, commanding.--Not directly in the engagement, Private John W. Evans, hand shot off. Company I, Capt. York, commanding.--Sergeant Hiram Sears, Sergeant John W. Wilson and Private Joseph T. Morris, mortally wounded; Private James H. Moring, severely wounded, and Joseph D. Ausley, slightly wounded. Col. Charles F. Fisher killed, and Lieut. Col. C. E. Lightfoot slightly wounded, making 15 killed,