Books with author John G. Thomson

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John Thompson was born in1812 into a life of slavery on a Maryland plantation. First published in 1856, "The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave" details his enslavement, his escape, and his life up North, where he lived as a freeman until fear of recapture caused him to flee once again-this time to sea aboard the Milwood, a whaling ship. The only fugitive slave narrator to report a whaling voyage, Thompson crafted from his whaling experience an allegorical sermon that caps his Life and relates it as a kind of African American Pilgrim’s Progress, as well as a chronicle of struggle with, escape from, and victory over American slavery.This book originally published in 1856 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional imperfection from the original publication or from the reformatting.

From swimming to the bottom of the ocean to reclaim a sunken boat, to standing up to bullies, to asking questions that might have painful answers, twelve year-old Donovan Sanger has some capabilities that the grown-ups around don't. This is why his dad has asked Donovan to go spend the summer with an Aunt and Uncle he barely knows. Aunt Hattie has become very ill with lung cancer and she and Uncle Bix need "a little moral support," as Donovan’s dad puts it. Uncle Bix is a mechanical genius who just a couple of years ago was released from jail for his role in a robbery. Before a week goes by, Donovan is sent underwater in a wetsuit so small he can barely breathe, is given a very short haircut in his sleep by Uncle Bix, who says it will "give him some strength," and learns that his uncle’s criminal past might be something he has not entirely left behind. As the summer progresses, Donovan helps brings a boat up from the bottom of Puget Sound and care for his Aunt, all the while trying to discover just what Uncle Bix is doing at secret meetings with his ex-convict friends.

It is a book for a young child. it is one that parents will want to read, about a boy that gets a cat, that see first saw in a dream. He loved the cat named SMOKEY. and had him a few years. Then one day the cat gets sick. He is taken to the vet and dies. The boy's father and mother tells him that while animals do not have a soul, the love we have for them will live forever. The love we have for a pet is just as important as the love you have for people.

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Kevin was born under strange circumstances. As a baby he was adopted by a woman named Susan. As he grew up she noticed he wasn't like other boys. He was a genius. He also had a destiny. He meets another boy his age at age 8. By age 11 he is done with high school and in college. He will find out by the end of the story that his intelligence will be used to change the world. The only thing he never expected was to fall in love with his best friend Keith. Their love will be the thing of legends.(But that will come in future stories)

It is stated in the preface that this book is an expansion of the series of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution in the spring of 1906.The book consists of seven chapters which deal respectively with the origin and properties of corpuscles, the two different corpuscular theories of metallic conduction, and in the number and arrangement of corpuscles in the atom.In the first chapter corpuscles in vacuum tubes are considered, and 'evidence is given showing that the corpuscles act as carriers of electricity, and that a positively electrified body owes its positive electrification to a defect of corpuscles. Also a positive charge is always associated with a mass comparable to that of the hydrogen or helium atom, whereas the corpuscles appear always to have the same mass, viz., that of about 1/1700 the atom of hydrogen.As is well known, the positive ions are given off by radium, and constitute the "X" rays. These have been examined by Rutherford and others, and the ratios of — e/m measured.The second chapter deals with the origin of the corpuscle, and here all the arguments are carefully set forth, and these tend to show that its mass is wholly electrical in origin.The evidence for the existence of corpuscles afforded by the Zeeman effect is discussed in a most luminous manner.The chapters of most interest to electrical engineers are IV and V, in which the two theories of metallic conduction of electricity are most carefully explained. These are very interesting indeed, and the mathematics used is not too heavy.The first of these theories assumes that the corpuscles are in temperature equilibrium with their surroundings, and that the "drift" of the corpuscles which constitutes the electric current, is started and maintained by the direct action of the electric field which acts on them. From considerations of the expressions derived for the conductivity of a substance, a rough estimate of the number of the corpuscles in a cubic centimetre of silver is arrived at, and the number is shown to be of the same order as the number of atoms in that volume. Again, the comparison between the ratio of the thermal to the electric conductivities gives a fairly close approximation to the results of experiment.The anomalous behaviour of alloys is pointed out in connection with the above, and the fact that pure metals appear to tend to zero resistance at the absolute zero of temperature, whilst that of alloys Beems to tend towards a definite limiting value.Lorenz's theory of radiation is next discussed, as well as the theory of the Hall, Peltier and Thomson effects. By considering the amount of heat absorbed or developed in a junction of two dissimilar metals when a current passes through it, the ratio of the number of corpuscles in unit volume of each metal may be determined, and from the Thomson effect, the change in this number for any one metal with temperature. The number arrived at in this way for silver is 1*8 x 1024. It is then shown that this makes the specific heat of silver about 10 times larger than the value required by experiment….— "The Electrical Review," Volume 61