Henry, Thomas

Henry, Thomas, On the natural history and origin of magnesian earth, ... 

Buckle, Henry Thomas. History of Civilization in England. Volume II. D. 

Frisch and Peierls finished their two reports and took them to Oli-phant. He quizzed the men thoroughly, added a cover letter to their memoranda ( I have considered these suggestions in some detail and have had considerable discussion with the authors, with the result that I am convinced that the whole thing must be taken rather seriously, if only to make sure that the other side are not occupied in the production of such a bomb at the present time ) and sent letter and documents off to Henry Thomas Tizard, an Oxford man, a chemist by training, the driving force behind British radar development, the civilian chairman of the Committee on the Scientific Survey of Air Defense—better known as the Tizard Committee—which was the most important British committee at the time concerned with the application of science to war. 

Buckle, Henry Thomas (1821-1862), Victorian historian of civilization. His reading of history rests on the view that the causes of social growth, and of divergent forms of social organization which characterize different historical cultures, are material (factors such as climate, food, soil, etc.) as opposed to racial. 

Gamma-electric cell (Henry Thomas Sampson) Sampson works with George H. Miley to produce the gamma-electric cell, which converts the energy of gamma rays into electrical energy. 

The electrical age was built on the discovery in the early 1830s, independently by Joseph Henry (1797-1878) in America and Michael Faraday (1791-1867) in England, of electromagnetic induction, which led directly to the invention of the dynamo to generate electricity from steam-powered rotation. It came to fruition on New Year s Eve, 1879, when Thomas Edison (1847-1931) in rural New Jersey, after systematic and exhaustive experiments, made the first successful incandescent lamp, employing a carbonised filament made from some thread taken from Mrs. Edison s sewing cabinet. The lamp burned undimmed for 40 h, watched anxiously by Edison and some of his numerous collaborators. This lamp was ideal for... 

Crawshaw, O.E. "The alchemical ideas of Thomas Vaughan and their relationships to the literary work of Henry Vaughan." PhD thesis, Univ of Wales, 1970. 

Hamilton, G.K. "Three worlds of light the philosophy of light of Marsilio Ficino, Thomas Vaughan, and Henry Vaughan." PhD thesis, Univ of Rochester, 1974. 

Smith, A.J.M. Some relations between Henry Vaughan and Thomas Vaughan. Papers Michigan A cad Sci Arts Letters 18(1933) 551-561. 

Guinsburg, Arlene Miller. Henry More, Thomas Vaughan and the late renaissance magical tradition. Ambix 27 (1980) 36-58. 

Clucas, Stephen. Poetic atomism in seventeenth-century England Henry More, Thomas Traherne and "scientific imagination". Renaissance Studs 5 (1991) 327-340. 

Sencourt, Robert. "Outflying philosophy a literary study of the religious element in the poems and letters of John Donne and in the works of Sir Thomas Browne and of Henry Vaughan the Silurist, together with an account of the interest of these writers in scholastic philosophy, in Platonism and in Hermetic physick, with also some notes on witchcraft." BLitt thesis, Oxford Univ, 1923. 

Waite, Arthur Edward. Henry and Thomas Vaughan. The Bookman 63, no. Ill (Feb 1923) 240-241. 

Wardle, R.M. Thomas Vaughan s influence upon the poetry of Henry Vaughan. PMLA 51 (1936) 936-952. 

Calhoun, Thomas G. Henry Vaughan the achievement of Silex Scintillans.. ... 

Calhoun, Thomas O. Henry Vaughan the achievements of Silex Scintillans. Newark Univ of Delaware P, 1981. 

Lachrymae Musamm The Tears of the Muses Written by divers persons of Nobility and Worth, Upon the Death of the most hopefull, Henry Lord Hastings. London Thomas Newcomb, 1649. 

Set in medieval times. Brother Thomas and his assistant are sent to investigate the case of Cecilia- an enigmatic visionary. Meanwhile other events intervene— a grisly murder, an alchemist s revelations and thr betrothal of Henry III — all seem to touch upon Cecilia s fate—and they find themselves ensnared in a web of intrigue and corruption reaching to the highest levels of the land and to the depths of the human soul... 

As before, friends rallied to Frankland s support. Frankland had joined the newly formed X-Club, whose eight members were united by a devotion to science, pure and free, untrammeled by religious dogmas, as one of them explained. Most were close associates of Charles Darwin they included John Tyndall, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Joseph Hooker. 

Henry A. McGee, Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University Thomas J. Meyer, Los Alamos National Laboratory Larry L. Miller, University of Minnesota Scott J. Miller, Boston College... 

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