"Thompson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... millions to make a drop of water, were the minutest objects with which science could imagine itself to be concerned, Now a body of experimentalists, prominent among whom stand Professors J. J. Thompson, Becquerel, and Roentgen, have demonstrated the existence of objects so minute that they find their way among and between the atoms of matter as rain-drops do among the buildings of a city. More wonderful yet, it seems likely, although it has not been demonstrated, that these little things, called ...
— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb
... strong enough for the service on which he had been ordered, he waited for further reinforcements, or additional instructions. At this time General Sullivan arrived; and, understanding the enemy to be weak at the Three Rivers, orders General Thompson to join Colonel St. Clair at Nicolet, with a reinforcement of nearly fourteen hundred men, to take command of the whole detachment, and to attack the troops lying at the Three Rivers, provided there was a favourable prospect ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5) • John Marshall
... names and much interesting subject matter, but I must state that in placing what I have before you, many of my scientific friends have been ready to help and to contribute, and, as an instance of this, I may mention that Prof. Sylvanus P. Thompson at once placed all his literature and even his private notes ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 • Various
... Thompson. An account of the relations of Russian geography, history, and politics, and of the bearings of the last on questions of world-wide interest. With ...
— The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens • Georg Jellinek
... and was just hesitating whether she should climb the fence and run through Squire Thompson's lot, or go around by the road, when she saw, just before her, Lucy Coit, walking along with her school-books in ...
— The Wreck • Anonymous
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