English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)

Usage examples of thomson.

Pope, the majestic blank verse of Thomson, the terse octosyllabics of Swift, the sonorous quatrains of Gray, and the lively anapests of Sheridan and Moore.

TELEGRAPHY, the first practical use of the transient electrical currents that William Thomson had investigated in the 1850s, quickly became an alternative technology to submarine cables, but never replaced them, even for nonsecret communications.

It certainly carried the kind of historic pedigree that would please a British-Canadian lord, it was widely held with no control blocks that would have demanded premium prices, and it was a well and conservatively managed enterprise, ideal for the Thomson habit of acquiring companies that turned decent profits without requiring day-to-day involvement.

With such an awful Heate and a Foetor of the Bodie, we welcomed the Sulphur which Thomson burned below the Table.

Thomson, Margaret Pringle, Margaret Hamiltown, relict of James Pollwart, William Craw, Bessie Wicker, and Margaret Hamilton, relict of Thomas Mitchell, sadly tormented Borrowstounness and other parts of Linlithgowshire, in the seventeenth century.

It is incredible: Richard neth Thomson quoted in John Murray, letter to Lord Amory, 27 Partridge and Dan Westell, June 1970.

As his heart was much in the matter, he began to pour out verse with a readiness and talent unknown in the history of song: his engagement with Thomson, and his esteem for Johnson, gave birth to a series of songs as brilliant as varied, and as naturally easy as they were gracefully original.

To engage in such an undertaking, Burns required small persuasion, and while Thomson asked for strains delicate and polished, the poet characteristically stipulated that his contributions were to be without remuneration, and the language seasoned with a sprinkling of the Scottish dialect.

Yet though he was sensible of sinking health, hope did not at once desert him: he continued to pour out such tender strains, and to show such flashes of wit and humour at the call of Thomson, as are recorded of no other lyrist: neither did he, when in company after his own mind, hang the head, and speak mournfully, but talked and smiled and still charmed all listeners by his witty vivacities.

It is the story of great men--Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others--and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the scientist, and others in both the technical and commercial fields, they succeeded in flashing both messages and speech around the world, with wires and without wires.

Thomson in 1805 led Cherubini to compose a sacred cantata for three voices and orchestra, which was duly performed in Paris when his death actually occurred.

Charles Thomson, the perennial secretary of Congress, replaced Barton’s “Deo favente” with a motto borrowed from Virgil’s Aeneid— “Annuit coeptis” (“God has nodded at the undertaking”)—and another motto borrowed from Virgil’s Eclogues—”Novus ordo saeclorum” (“A new order of the ages is born”).

Charles Thomson, the perennial secretary of Congress, replaced Bartons Deo favente with a motto borrowed from Virgils Aeneid Annuit coeptis (God has nodded at the undertaking)and another motto borrowed from Virgils EcloguesNovus ordo saeclorum (A new order of the ages is born).

She hastened down and told him what had occurred on the day when the agent of Thomson & French had come to her father’s, related the scene on the staircase, repeated the promise she had made, and showed him the letter.

Fen watched Sally-Ann Thomson bumping off to take part in the musical chairs.