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Undiscouraged, Arrhenius sent copies of his thesis to other scientists. Although few took his radical idea seriously, the great German scientist, Ostwald, became so excited that he traveled to Sweden to meet Arrhenius. Encouraged by this support, Arrhenius traveled and studied in Germany and Holland. Finally, in 1889, his paper On the Dissociation of Substances in Aqueous Solutions was published. 

Ilgner himself was descended from Swedish commercial travelers. The Swedish industrialists reminded him that Germany could hardly expect to sell to Jewish interests whose products all over the world had just been boycotted by Hitler, nor to others whom the boycott had influenced against the new Nazi government nor to many others who believed that their sales might come whizzing back across their borders some day. 

Some of these began their work with electric cars. In Germany Ferdinand Porsche, built his first car, the Lohner Electric Chaise, in 1898 at the age of 23. The Lohner-Porsche was a first front-wheel drive car with four-wheel brakes and an automatic transmission. It used one electric motor in each of the four wheel hubs similar to today s hybrid cars, which have both gas and electric power. Porsche s second car was a hybrid, with an internal-combustion engine driving a generator to power the electric motors in the wheel hubs. On battery power alone, the car could travel 38 miles. 

Michael Maier (see plate 10) was bom at Rendsberg (in Holstein) about 1568. He studied medicine assiduously, becoming a most successful physician, and he was ennobled by Rudolf II. Later on, however, he took up the subject of Alchemy, and is said to have mined his health and wasted his fortune in the pursuit of the alchemistic ignis fatuus — the Stone of the Philosophers — travelling about Germany and elsewhere in order to have converse with those who were regarded as adepts in the... 

When Germany invaded and conquered Austria in 1938, Loewi was placed under arrest. Fortunately, he was eventually released from prison and was able to escape the country, traveling first to Belgium and England and then to the United States. He was then appointed to a position at the New York University College of Medicine, where he remained until 1946. He died in New York City on December 25,1961. 

Boyle s assistant, A. G. Hanckwitz or Hanckewitz (1660-1741), was therefore able to develop the piocess on a commercial scale, improve it, and export phosphorus to the continent (8,. 9, 17). Hanckwitz had been brought over from Germany at an early age by his honored master. He later built furnaces and stills in Maiden Lane, and traveled through the... 

He graduated from the University of Upsala in 1788, presenting a thesis on Oils Extracted from Seeds, and traveled, on salary, through Germany. Soon after his return to Upsala in 1790 he wrote a beautiful poem on the peace recently concluded between Sweden and Russia. 

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