672 research outputs found
Wireless telegraphy
No full textCitation: Cook, Edwin Charles and York, Henry, Theodore. Wireless telegraphy. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1901.Introduction: The first experiments of note in wireless technology were conducted by J. B. Lindsay in England about 1843. He sent massages across a river by placing two metal plates on each bank connecting the two on one side to the dispatching instrument and the two places on the other side to the receiving instrument
Charles Dickens and Edwin Drood: the death of the author, the rise of the reader
No full textOn June 9, 1870, Charles Dickens died, leaving his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, half completed. For decades, readers and scholars have speculated about what Dickens intended for the second half of this novel. I argue that the both Dickens and Edwin Drood have extended afterlives due to the incomplete nature of this novel: readers return to Dickens's career and his other novels in order to try to determine the fate of Edwin Drood. The case of Drood shows us that the author is not dead; Dickens stays very much alive in the continuations whether the writers of continuations choose to include him in their interpretations or whether they decide to exclude him from their interpretations but or pay homage to his writing style. Either way, Dickens is a part of the novel and its afterlives, even though other people have picked up their pens to finish what he began
Book review: To Chain the Dog of War: The War Power of Congress in History and Law. By Francis D. Wormuth and Edwin B. Firmage, with Francis P. Butler as a contributing author.
No full textBook review: To Chain the Dog of War: The War Power of Congress in History and Law. By Francis D. Wormuth and Edwin B. Firmage, with Francis P. Butler as a contributing author. Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University
Press. 1986. Pp. xi, 347. Reviewed by: Charles A. Lofgren.Lofgren, Charles A.. (1988). Book review: To Chain the Dog of War: The War Power of Congress in History and Law. By Francis D. Wormuth and Edwin B. Firmage, with Francis P. Butler as a contributing author.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/164965
Letter from Edwin Murphy, Murphy Seed Company, to J.V. [John Victor] Carson The Dominguez Water Corporation, June 15, 1945
No full textFormal notice that Murphy has sublet the old Kimura glass house to Charles Gonzalez
Charles Dickens: Anti-Catholicism and Catholicism
No full textThis thesis explores the role of anti-Catholicism and Catholicism in the life and work of Charles Dickens. A critical consensus has emerged that Dickens was vehemently anti-Catholic. Yet a 'curious dream' he had of his beloved dead sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth, in which her spirit appears to him in the guise of the Madonna, suggests that his overt anti-Catholicism masks a profoundly complex relationship to the 'Church of Rome'. 'Dickens: Anti-Catholicism and Catholicism' therefore re-evaluates the anti-Catholic sentiments in the author's novels, journalism and letters by contextualizing them in relation to key events of the nineteenth-century Catholic revival such as the 1850 Papal Aggression. I argue that Dickens often employs anti-Catholicism not simply as a religious prejudice, but as a mode of discourse through which he disrupts, displaces or reinforces a range of secular anxieties. 'Dickens: Anti-Catholicism and Catholicism' also uncovers and explores the often cryptic moments in Dickens's writing when Catholic motifs are invoked that suggest a strange 'attraction of repulsion' to Roman Catholicism. Catholicism seems to offer him a rich source of imaginative and narrative possibilities. Reading Dickens's fiction through the lens of Catholicism can therefore reveal a much more ambivalent relationship to the religion than his apparent beliefs as well as unearthing new ways of thinking about his work
Catalogue of the Egyptological Library and other books from the collection of the late Charles Edwin Wilbour
No full textClass Picture 1887-1888
No full textPenn College class picture. Seated Row (from left to right): Sherman W. Hursey, John H. Hadley, Howard Marriage, Iranaeus W. Cook, Edward L. Heald, Oliver E. Dixon. Standing: Charles Edwin Lewis, Bevan C. Johnson, William S. Hogue, Elmer H. Gifford, J. Walter Townsend, Charles Hammard, Charles V. Marshall, and Ed Marshall
Government and elementary education in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century
No full textThis thesis attempts to describe the growth of the central government’s involvement in elementary education, and the corresponding growth of the staffing and expenditure of the Education Department in Whitehall, in terms that have explanatory force. It goes from 1833 to the early 1860s, covering the 1840s and 1850s in most detail. The first chapter establishes a theoretical framework within which education can take its place beside other examples of government intervention. It reasserts the relevance of A.V. Dicey's analysis of the movements of opinion and the corresponding legislative trends, and concludes that in the mid-nineteenth century a description as far as possible in terms of demand factors is the appropriate one. The next two chapters describe the structure and growth of the systems of building grants and pupil-teacher grants; and the consequences for the staffing and expenditure of the Education Department. These are traced in detail, allowing an assessment of the Department's efficiency and the adequacy of the staff to the work, and how these changed over the period. Chapter 4 examines the evidence for Treasury restrictiveness of the Education Department's activities, and finds little, contrary to the assumptions of many accounts of the period. Chapter 5 traces the development of the views of the Newcastle Commission, and of Gladstone's interventions, and relates them to the Revised Code. These are together interpreted as a reassertion, ultimately unsuccessful, of an individualist approach to government intervention against the increasingly collectivist tendency of the system as it had become
The Scientific romances of Charles Howard Hinton : the fourth dimension as hyperspace, hyperrealism and protomodernism
No full textThis thesis examines the epistemological, socio-cultural and aesthetic impact of the hyperspace philosophy of Charles Howard Hinton, as expressed within his two-volume
collection of Scientific Romances (1884-1896). Hinton's hyperspace philosophy is founded on the belief that the fourth dimension exists as a transcendental yet material
space that is accessible to both the mind and the physical senses. Inspired by Immanuel Kant's discussion of space as an a priori intuition, Hinton's project is one of
consciousness expansion: he argues that 'a new era of thought' can be attained through the recognition of the fourth dimension. The thesis demonstrates that, in the Scientific Romances, Hinton seeks to engender the 'reality' of the fourth dimension within the reader's imagination through the collaboration of reader and author. Hinton's hyperspace philosophy is thus concerned with mediation, the ways in which the consciousness thinks and creates with and through the aesthetics of space. In addition to providing the most developed analysis of Hinton's writing to date, this thesis examines the work of Hinton's contemporaries
exploring the ways in which the discourse of the fourth dimension can offer new readings of familiar literary texts. A recurring explanatory device throughout
hyperspace philosophy is the dimensional analogy, and the thesis illustrates how this trope resonates across the work of contemporary writers including Lewis Carroll, H. G. Wells, HenryJames, Friedrich Nietzsche and William James
Catalogue of the Egyptological library and other books from the collection of the late Charles Edwin Wilbour, /
No full textLettered on cover: Wilbour library catalogue.This library and the Wilbour collection of antiquities were presented to the Brooklyn museum in 1916 by the heirs of the collector
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