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See also: 85-21o), and in the finely-illustrated Monograph which he and C . W . See also:Wyatt have published (2 vols . 4to, See also:London, 1885-1894) . painter and a skilful draughtsman, he ranks also as a sculptor on a large See also:scale of electric See also:lighting by means of glow lamps . of distinguished ability . He has treated the human figure with In another method devised by him for the manufacture of filaments, See also:collodion was squirted into a coagulating See also:solution and the tough threads thus obtained carbonized by See also:heat . He also devoted See also:attention to apparatus for measuring electric currents, to the improvement of accumulators and to the conditions governing the electro-deposition of metals . He was elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society in 1894, and served as See also:president of the Institution of See also:Electrical See also:Engineers in 1898–1899 and of the Society of Chemical See also:Industry in 1901 . In the last-named See also:year he received the honorary degree of D.Sc. from See also:Durham University, and he was knighted in 1904 . |
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