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Definition of John Tyndall
1. Noun. British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere; he was the first person to explain why the daylight sky is blue (1820-1893).
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Literary usage of John Tyndall
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1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"John Tyndall was born at Leighlin Bridge, near Carlow, in Ireland, on the 21st
of August, 1820, and the early years of his life, np to the age of 19, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"By Dr. John Tyndall, FRS Received March 21,*2. In reference to one of the powerful
fog-whistles established on the coast of Maine, General Duane remarks as ..."
3. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"John Tyndall ART AND SCIENCE [Speech of Professor John Tyndall at the annual
banquet of the Royal Academy, London, May 5, 1808. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"John Tyndall (1820-1893) TYNDALL was one of the many Irishmen who have contributed
substantially to English thought. He was born at Leighlin Bridge, ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"... John Tyndall. THE weightiest events of life sometimes turn upon small hinges ;
and we now come to the incident which caused M. Pasteur to quit a line of ..."
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