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  Circuit Theory #6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Wheatstone bridge was first described by Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865) in his paper Experimental Determination of the Laws of Magneto-electric Induction (1833).
Samuel Christie was the son of James Christie, founder of the well-known auction galleries (see Dictionary of Scientific Biography; Charles Coulston Gillispie, editor).
The bridge was (and is) used chiefly to measure resistance.
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 USATODAY.com - Pacers sign Jasikevicius; Magic cut Christie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers and free-agent center Steven Hunter agreed to terms of a contract and the deal is expected to be finalized Friday.
Hunter, the No. 15 overall pick in the 2001 draft, spent the first three years of his career with Orlando and last season with Phoenix.
The Magic still have to pay Christie $8.2 million for the final year of his contract, but he will be allowed to sign with another team.
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 Tidal correspondents of the nineteenth
Christie, Sir William Henry Mahoney 1845-1922, astronomer, was born at Woolwich 1 October 1845.
He was the eldest son of Samuel Hunter Christie, professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and secretary of the Royal Society from 1837 to 1854, of Killarney.
Christie's term of office ended in October 1910, when he retired at the age of sixty-five.
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Christie, Samuel Hunter (1784-1865) mathematician, was born at 90 Pall Mall, London.
Christie also threw himself with ardour into all the athletic amusements of the day; he inaugurated the Cambridge University boat club, and became captain of the grenadier company of university volunteers.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 12 Jan. 1826, and served the office of secretary from 1837 to 1854, when, for the benefit of his health, he went to reside at Lausanne.
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 ACW's Insulator Info - Book Reference Info - Timeline of Related Developments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the man who developed the telegraph into a practical instrument of communication, was the son of Jedidiah and Elizabeth Breese Morse.
Amos Emerson Dolbear, a physicist and wireless pioneer, was born November 10, 1837, the son of Samuel and Eliza Dolbear of Norwich, Connecticut.
Samuel A. Varley noted that finely powdered metal presented high resistance to passage of current, but became a good conductor as the voltage increased.
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 1910 Death Brooklyn
William S.LOVE,son of the lat SAMUEL A. and Mary A.LOVE.
SAMUEL S.SANFORD,for many years head of the music department at Yale University,and a son of HENRY SANFORD,founder of the Adams Express Company, died today at his home, 50 West Fifty-second street,Manhattan.
Samuel R. PROBASCO, who was chief engineer of the Department of Bridges from 1898 to 1901 and had been connected with the Brooklyn Bridge since 1875, died at his home in Burlington, N. J., yesterday.
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 NBA.com: Workin’ the Wire
Now, if you took a flier on Martell Webster, or were expecting big things from Doug Christie, you might want to think about taking a look at who’s available on the wire.
Steven Hunter, C, PHI- With Samuel Dalembert out of action for the next couple of weeks, Steven Hunter will see the bulk of playing time at center for the Sixers.
Hunter has long arms and an athletic frame and can elevate above the rim to block shots on the defensive end.
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 Wheatstone Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Sir Charles Wheatstone is most famous for this device but never claimed to have invented it - however, he did more than anyone else to invent uses for it,when he 'found' the description of the device in 1843.
The first description of the bridge was by Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865) in 1833.
The Wheatstone bridge is an electrical bridge circuit used to measure resistance.
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 Bridge circuit - TheBestLinks.com - Current (electricity), Conductor, Diode, Wheatstone bridge, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It was originally used for measurement purposes, but can also be used in power supplies.
The best-known bridge circuit, the Wheatstone bridge, was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie and popularized by Charles Wheatstone, and is used for measuring resistance.
It is constructed from four resistors, one of which has an unknown value, one of which is variable, and two of which are fixed and equal, connected as the sides of a square.
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 Doug Christie NBA Basketball at CBS SportsLine.com
Compare Christie against his opponents in his next game.
No word yet on how much time Christie will miss, but this is very bad news for his owners.
Christie is better known for his defensive abilities and not so much for his scoring.
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 June 13, 2002 Writ Conference
Mother appeals circuit court order terminating her parental rights, alleging that there was no clear and convincing evidence supporting the termination of her parental rights and that the circuit court erred in denying her an improvement period.
Father appeals circuit court order terminating his parental rights, alleging that there was no clear and convincing evidence supporting the termination of his parental rights and that the circuit court erred in denying him an improvement period.
Father appeals circuit court order terminating his parental rights, asserting that the circuit court erred in terminating his improvement period and in finding that there was sufficient evidence to support termination of his parental rights.
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 Woolwich churchyard M.I.'s - 451 to 903
Samuel LYON died 28 May 1782 aged 63 (or 68).
Samuel THOMAS of this parish died 4 February 1836 aged 63.
Samuel COOMBES of this parish shipwright, died 17 April 1799 aged 73.
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 October 19 - Today in Science History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Measuring heads of criminals against skulls of apes and prehistoric humans, he concluded that criminals were in fact hereditary victims of atavism - a reversion to evolutionarily primitive traits including those related to survival.
English physicist who popularized the Wheatstone bridge, a device that accurately measured electrical resistance and became widely used in laboratories.
His contemporary, Samuel Hunter Christie, came up with the idea of the bridge circuit, but Wheatstone set the precedent for using it in the way in which it has been most commonly used.
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She is survived by sons Channon, Kui, Parish and Neal Padamada; daughter Luana Padamada; brothers Ronald, William, Glenn and Samuel Hudman; sister Faye "Aloha" Hudman, and 15 grandchildren.
He is survived by daughter Christie Yee; mother Betty; brothers Roland, Edward and Harry; sister Carol Hirota, and two grandchildren.
He is survived by wife Eloise; sons Samson M. and Timothy Isabel; daughter Christie L.; stepdaughter Gina Puente; father Samson K.; brothers Randall Pule and Ainsley, Sterling and Steven Holeso; sisters Dallas Kuhaiki, Jan L. DeRego and Sherleen Olson; and five grandchildren.
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 Wheatstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The first description of the bridge was by Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865), of the Royal Military Academy, who published it in the PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS for 1833.
In 1837, the American inventor Samuel Morse developed the first American electric telegraph, which was based on simple patterns of "dots" and "dashes" called Morse Code being transmitted over a single wire.
Samuel Alfred Varley, and Professor Wheatstone had independently arrived at the principle within a few months of each other.
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 1879 Court Bklyn
The holding of Margaret CURRAN, of Hunters' Point, for the purpose of receiving additional complaints against her resulted this morning in the appearance of Mrs.
Maggie HUNTER, of # 115 Boerum st, brought suit in the City Court against Emil ZINK, of # 138 the same street to recover $1000 damages for slander by calling plaintiff vile names.
In the Supreme Court yesterday, Justice GILBERT granted permission to the Gates Avenue Congregational Church to mortgage their property for $6,000, the amount realized to be applied to purchase of other property.
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 USATODAY.com - Roundup: Sacramento now home to Shareef Abdur-Rahim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The veteran forward has never reached the playoffs — but that seems likely to change with the Kings, who added him to a starting lineup that now could be one of the NBA's strongest.
Geoff Petrie, the Kings' president of basketball operations, moved swiftly to complete the latest move in his yearlong makeover of the franchise, which has parted ways with Chris Webber, Vlade Divac, Doug Christie, Cuttino Mobley and Bobby Jackson since last summer.
Last season with the Suns, Hunter averaged 4.6 points and 3.0 rebounds in a career-high 76 games and appeared in all 15 playoff games off the bench.
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 Scientific Articles Collected by Ian Fleming IU Lilly Library
Samuel Haughton, article no. 2, excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.
Samuel Roberts, chairman of a committee appointed at Sheffield for encouraging the sweeping of chimneys without the use of climbing-boys," excerpt from Papers in mechanics, p.
Samuel Clegg, of Manshester, for his apparatus for making carbonated hydrogen gas from pit coal, and lighting factories therewithin.
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 January 1997
Christie's fabulous diamond Sir Charles Wheatstone saw the sparkle in Samuel Hunter Christie's diamond and made it into his own bridge.
163 years ago in England an obscure physicist, Samuel Hunter Christie, made one of the most startling discoveries ever recorded.
IRON RULES OF MANAGEMENT Iron Rule #4: Successful managers may not always have a formal education, but they always continue learning.
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 A Science History Quiz
Christie also showed that conductivity of wires varies directly with their diameter and inversely to their length.
[8] Samuel Morse (1791-1872) had gotten the idea from Henry, but he wasn't gracious enough to admit it—even at the court trial in which a number of others challenged Morse's priority.
At this trial Morse clearly demonstrated that he didn't understand electricity well enough to have invented the telegraph all by himself.
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 The Royal Observatory Greenwich--Chapter 4 Airy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
He was born at Woolwich, in 1845, his father having been Professor Samuel Hunter Christie, F.R S. He was educated at King's College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating as fourth Wrangler in 1868.
Stone, who had become her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape, and in 1881 he succeeded Airy as Astronomer Royal.
Christie's office, the two new departments of the Astrographic Chart and Double-star observations have come into being.
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 National Portrait Gallery | Research | Photographs Collection | Collection holdings
Sitters include: Samuel Wilberforce (very many) and family, John Keble, the Liddell family, the Gladstone family, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, William Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Queen Victoria and family, Michael Faraday, George Peabody.
Subjects include: family of Samuel Wilberforce, churchmen, church congresses and synods, foreign royalty, landscapes and buildings and Francis Russell Nixon's photographs of the last Tasmanians.
Each containing 18 carbon print portraits after photographs by Samuel A. Walker of 230 Regent Street, reproduced by Walter Low and Sons of London, accompanied on card page mounts with facsimile signatures.
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 Battery History, Technology, Applications and Development
The first US patent was granted to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a new method of making Potash.
1812 German physician Samuel Thomas von Sömmering increased the range of Salvás (1804) telegraph to three kilometers by using bigger batteries, a method subsequently used with disastrous results on the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable.
1833 Samuel Hunter Christie of the British Royal Military Academy publishes a bridge circuit for comparing or determining resistance, later to be called the Wheatstone Bridge.
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 Scholar-Athletics
Iris Antonescu Hunter College Tennis, Track and Field / 3.36 GPA Majors: Elementary Education.
performer since her arrival at Hunter College in 1998.
Hunter won the CUNYAC Championship in 2002 after
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 AIP International Catalog of Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The bulk of the papers were presented by a relative, Miss Daniell, with additional material presented by Canon G. Daniell, his grandson, and Samuel Hunter Christie, mathematician.
No restriction on access beyond reader undertaking to abide by the regulations.
Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.
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 Sound & Video Contractor Sitemap - Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Christie Digital Systems announced the implementation of a proprietary Spatial Light Imaging Construction process that is now used to assemble light engines in its DLP-technology-based projection systems.
Christie Digital Systems' Mirage 3D DLP projectors were used in the Supercomputing 2001 exhibit at the Denver Convention Complex in Denver, Colorado this November.
Christie is sponsoring the following ICIA seminars during InfoComm 2002, which is being held in Las Vegas on June 12–14.
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 Greenville College - The Record Online - Spring/Summer 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Glen ’91 and Linette Ballew, a son, Samuel Hunter, born July 19, 2000.
Glen is self-employed with his “Red Room Recording Studio.” He is also part-time teen pastor at Light and Life Community Church in Lakewood, CO. He and Linette own and operate Fifty280 Records and host the annual Vision Music Festival held in Castle Rock, CO on Labor Day weekend.
Christie Kirk ’97 has taken a new position as a financial aid officer at Louisiana College after serving two years as an admissions counselor for the same school, a private liberal arts college in Pineville, LA. 3625 Hynson St., Alexandria, LA 71303.
www.greenville.edu /publications/record/spring01/alumninews.shtml   (6279 words)

  
 BioUpdate On-Line: Fall 1997 Issue
Christie Huddleston received her M.S. degree in May and was recently promoted at the Murfreesboro Medical Clinic.
Holly Tidwell graduated with her M.S. degree in 1997 and is now employed by Quest Diagnostic in Nashville.
Regina Courtney (M.S. 1997) is employed in the laboratory of Dr. Samuel Hunter in the Neurology Department, Vanderbilt University Medical School.
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 Wheatstone bridge -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Wheatstone bridge -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
A Wheatstone bridge is a (Instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something) measuring instrument invented by (additional info and facts about Samuel Hunter Christie) Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833 and improved and popularized by Sir (additional info and facts about Charles Wheatstone) Charles Wheatstone in 1843.
Here, Rx is the resistance we want to measure; R1, R2 and R3 are known resistors of known resistance; furthermore, the resistance of R2 is adjustable.
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