Cloud, Joseph

In 1824 del Rio published an analysis of a gold-rhodium alloy from the smelting house in Mexico which was similar to the gold-palladium ingot previously reported by Joseph Cloud, director of the Philadelphia Mint (21). Three years later he published a translation of Berzelius s New mineral system (22). He served for some time on a committee appointed to inspect the money and improve working conditions at the Mint. 

In 1809-10 Joseph Cloud, chemical director of the Philadelphia Mint, discovered an alloy of gold and palladium in two ingots of gold from Brazil (48, 49). The following account of this discovery is to be found in Nichobons Journal for 1812 In 1807 about 820 ounces of gold bullion were brought into the mint of the United States. They... 

The train slows into the station surrounded in a cloud of steam and comes to rest. Through the haze JOSEPH makes out the Nazi soldiers boarding the last passenger car. He jogs over to the bench to retrieve his suitcase under cover of the steam and boards the first passenger car. 

As the fireball rose into the air, Joseph W. Kennedy reports, the overcast of strato-cumulus clouds directly overhead [became] pink on the underside and well illuminated, as at a sunrise. Weisskopf noticed that the path of the shock wave through the clouds was plainly visible as an expanding circle all over the sky where it was covered by clouds. When the red glow faded out, writes Edwin McMillan, a most remarkable effect made its appearance. The whole surface of the ball was covered with a purple luminescence, like that produced by the electrical excitation of the air, and caused undoubtedly by the radioactivity of the material in the ball. ... 

Armbmst, M., A. Fox, R. Griffith, A.D. Joseph, R. Katz, A. Konwinski, G. Lee, D. Patterson, A. Rabkin, I. Stoica, and M. Zaharia. 2010a. Above the Clouds A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing. Technical Report EECS-2009-28, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley. Available online at www.abovetheclouds.cs.berkeley.edu. 

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