Autobiography of an Electron

About this eBook

Author

Gibson, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1870-1931

Title

The Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion

Credits

E-text prepared by Sharon Joiner, Erica Pfister-Altschul, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( www.archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

QC: Science: Physics

Subject

Electrons

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36456

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36456

Release Date

June 17, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Sharon Joiner, Erica Pfister-Altschul, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( http://www.archive.org/details/americana ) — THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ELECTRON — THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ELECTRON. — BY CHARLES R. GIBSON, F.R.S.E.
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.WHAT THE STORY IS ABOUT
6. 6.THE ELECTRON'S PREFACE
7. 7.THE NEW ARRIVAL — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER THREE
8. 8.SOME GOOD SPORT — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER FOUR
9. 9.MY EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER FIVE
10. 10.MAN PAYS US SOME ATTENTION — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER SIX
11. 11.A STEADY MARCH — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER SEVEN
12. 12.A USEFUL DANCE — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER EIGHT
13. 13.HOW WE CARRY MAN'S NEWS — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER NINE
14. 14.HOW WE COMMUNICATE WITH DISTANT SHIPS — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER TEN
15. 15.HOW WE REPRODUCE SPEECH — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER ELEVEN
16. 16.OUR HEAVIEST DUTIES — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER TWELVE
17. 17.A BOON TO MAN — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER THIRTEEN
18. 18.HOW WE PRODUCE COLOUR — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER FOURTEEN
19. 19.WE SEND MESSAGES FROM THE STARS — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER FIFTEEN
20. 20.HOW MAN PROVED OUR EXISTENCE — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER SIXTEEN
21. 21.MY X-RAY EXPERIENCES — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
22. 22.OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE ATOMS — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
23. 23.HOW WE MADE THE WORLD TALK — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER NINETEEN
24. 24.CONCLUSION — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER TWENTY
25. 25.APPENDIX — THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON APPENDIX
26. 26.INDEX — Transcriber's Note

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