 | Institution of civil engineers - 1884 - 200 pages
...President, in the Chair. Electrical Units of Measurement. .By Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, FRS, M. Inst. CE IN physical science a first essential step in the...is to find principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practicably measuring, some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Electric industries - 1884 - 204 pages
...President, in the Chair. Electrical Units of Measurement. By Sir WILLIAM THoMSoN, FKS, M. Inst. CE IN physical science a first essential step in the...is to find principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practicably measuring, some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure... | |
 | Richard Evans Day - 1884 - 222 pages
...Thomson at the commencement of a lecture delivered on May 3, 1883, at the Institute of Civil Engineers. ' In physical science a first essential step in the...is to find principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure... | |
 | William Dennis Marks - Steam-engines - 1887 - 606 pages
...delivered at the Institute of Civil Engineers, May, 1883, Sir William Thomson used the following words : " In physical science, a first essential step in the...is to find principles of numerical reckoning, and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say, when you can measure... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - Geology - 1889 - 486 pages
...May 3, 1883 ; being one of a series of Six Lectures on "The Practical Applications of Electricity''^ IN physical science a first essential step in the...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practicably measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure... | |
 | Franklin Leonard Pope - Telegraph - 1891 - 276 pages
...understand electrical phenomena. 88. Fundamental Units of Mass, Space, and Time. — The principle of the 1 In physical science, a first essential step in the...is to find principles of numerical reckoning, and methods of practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure... | |
 | English periodicals - 1885 - 578 pages
...of this work is explained by the quotation in the preface from a lecture by Sir W. Thomson : — " In physical science a first essential step in the...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure... | |
 | English periodicals - 1885 - 564 pages
...work is explained by the quotation in the preface from a lecture by Sir W. Thomson : — " In phvsical science a first essential step in the direction of...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure... | |
 | Martin Bulmer - Social Science - 1986 - 305 pages
...longer quotation, in Lord Kelvin's lecture in 1883 to the Institution of Civil Engineers in London: In physical science a first essential step in the...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 906 pages
...Glasgow, 1st November, 1866. in SPT, 1, 504. 20 Measurement and marketing: the economics of electricity In physical science a first essential step in the...subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practicably measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure... | |
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and methods for practically measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking... 
