A chance "eureka moment" by a Scottish physicist solved a problem that had plagued the transatlantic cable -- and made a lord out of the man who had the insight. One of the fundamental problems of ...

ATTENTION has recently been drawn more than once (notably by Sir William Thomson, and by Mr. W. H. Preece and Mr. Kemp) to the advantages offered, in certain cases of the use of the ...

GALVANOMETERS of innumerable kinds abound, and each form has some special merit which renders it useful for certain restricted services. The old astatic instrument of Nobili is still preferred by many ...