Dr. Watson

Tauber Good morning, Dr Watson. Tell me about the cases last night . 

With Sherlock Holmes and Sir Boss impatiently waiting. Dr. Watson casually leaned against the vat, slowly and carefully filled his pipe, and— with the keen sense of the dramatic—lit it. There our story ends. 

In Conan Doyle s The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dr. Mortimer, describing the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, informs Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that footprints of the perpetrator were found beside the dead man s body Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound. ... 

Electric Cap was invented by Dr Watson of England and improved in 1749 by B. Franklin of US, but the device was forgotten until 1830 when Moses Shaw was granted a patent for a similar device. It was a high tension cap. The first low tension cap was developed by M. Shaw with the assistance of Dr R. Hare (Vol 1 of Encycl, p B186-R)... 

In the year 1745, Dr Watson of London tried to Ignite Black Powder (BkPdr) by means of an electric spark but did not succeed because the explosive was in loose powder form and most of it scattered before ignition took place. Benjamin Franklin found in 1751 a method to overcome the difficulties encountered by Watson and he succeeded in... 

McCarty CG (1970) syn-anti Isomerizations and rearrangements. In Patai S (ed) The chemistry of the carbon-nitrogen double bonds. Wiley, London, chap 9 Bjorgo J, Boyd DR, Watson CG, Jennings WB (1974) J Chem Soc Perkin Trans 2 757 Johnson GP, Marples BA (1984) Tetrahedron Lett 25 3359... 

Suratwala T, Gardlund Z, Davidson K, Uhlmann DR, Watson J, Peyghambarian N... 

The most common, and most voluminously produced, hot-wire detonator is the electric blasting cap. The history of these devices seemed to start in England in 1745, when a certain Dr. Watson of the Royal Society of England demonstrated that black powder could be ignited by the spark discharge from a Leyden Jar. 

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Dr. Watson Windows NT 4 includes a special utility known as Dr. Watson. This utility intercepts all error conditions and, instead of presenting the user with a cryptic Windows error, presents the user with a slew of information that can be used to troubleshoot the problem. Additionally, Dr. Watson logs all errors to log files stored in the WINDOWS DRWATSON directory. 

For Fildes s successors at Porton Down, the problem is now beginning to look insoluble. As Rex Watson, the present Director of Porton Down, put it in an interview in 1981 The attraction of anthrax when it was used was that it was thought to be sufficiently resistant an organism to withstand being dispersed by a munition... I don t think at that time perhaps they understood as much as we do now about its persistence over very long periods. 7 Porton would expect there to be an area of contamination for the next tens, perhaps even hundreds of years. Until that area is clear, Gruinard will remain closed to the public. At the moment, to be sure of being safe, the Porton men who go back still have to wear protective suits and take a seven and a half month course of injections. I doubt, added Dr Watson, that we would do such an experiment now if we had to in those conditions. ... 

In the book Study in Scarlet (1887), Dr. Watson enumerates some of Sherlock Holmes unique characteristics one of which is Knowledge of Sensational Literature—Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century. By studying earlier crimes. Holmes is able to apply the lessons learned to current crimes. 

The importance of understanding the past is illustrated with regard to (the fictional) Dr. Watson s ruminations as to what new friend Sherlock Holmes does for a living, not long after they first meet. Watson summarizes Holmes attributes. The list includes the following statement ... 

A literary mystery is also cormected to barirrm srrlfate. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s crime story titled A Case of Identity, a conversation between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson goes like this. 

Of course, much interest in strychnine centers on its pharmacological properties. It is a powerful convulsant, lethal to an adult human in a dose as small as 30 mg. Death comes from central respiratory failure and is preceded by violent convulsions. Strychnine is the deadly agent in many a murder story, real and imagined. One example is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, in which Dr. Watson suggests the lethal agent to be a powerful vegetable alkaloid. .. some strychnine-like substance. ... 

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