Edgar, Graham

Graham Edgar 12) in 1927 proposed the use of mixtures of n-heptane and 2,2,4-trimethylpentane, commonly known as isooctane, as standards for rating fuels for knock. Two years later the same investigator, together with Calingaert and Marker 13), made a... 

Prepared by Graham Edgar and W. S. Hinegardner. Checked by H. T. Clarke and Ross Phillips. 

G. Christiansen W. Dox Graham Edgar L. F. Fieser Henry Gilman... 

Clarke, Graham, ed. Edgar Allan Poe Critical Assessments. 4 vols. New York Routledge, 1991. 

The tale is widely reprinted and also dramatized on the Philadelphia stage. In July William H. Graham issues The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe, which contains The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Man That Was Used Up, the first and only installment of a planned, serialized collection of Poe s stories. In November Poe delivers his first public lecture, Poets and Poetry of America, a means of income he would frequently resort to during the remainder of his life. 

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