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  Learn more about Electricity in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Other European pioneers were Robert Boyle, who stated in 1675 that electric attraction and repulsion can act across a vacuum; Stephen Gray, who in 1729 classified materials as conductors and insulators; and C. Du Fay, who first identified the two types of electric charge that would later be called positive and negative.
The Leyden jar, a type of capacitor for storing electric charge in large quantities, was invented at Leyden University by Pieter van Musschenbroek in 1745.
William Watson, experimenting with the Leyden jar, discovered in 1747 that a discharge of static electricity was equivalent to an electric current.
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 The Love or Money Dichotomy: Consciousness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The earth is a living organism and part of the Universe.
Among other things, I did not merely come to believe, but I saw that the universe is not composed of dead matter, but is, on the contrary, a living Presence; I became conscious in myself of eternal life.
The supporters of "strong AI" are of the opinion that in the not too distant future (approximately from 50 to 200 years) computers will be able to reach the three lower levels of human consciousness.
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 Sign Languages of the World, by Name   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Most citations were obtained from materials in the collection of the Gallaudet University Library, but some were drawn from the International bibliography of sign language, www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/bibweb/.
Buffalo, NY: Dept. of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Buffalo.
Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles.
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