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SCIENTIFIC MEN MET!INTERESTING SESSION AT THE NORMAL LAST NIGHTINVITED TO HEAR WAR RUMPrcf. Kelso and Dr. Noyes Treat the Members To Short DiscoursesIOn Matters of Interest.The monthly meeting: of the Terre Haute j •Hcience club was held yesterday evening1 in the physical laboratories of the Normal BChool building. There was increased attendance and much interest was manifested in the papers read* and in the discussion following. The Jefferson club’s invitation to the scientists to attend the War-rum lecture next Friday night was accepted.The first paper of the evening was read by Prof. O. L. Kelso, of the department of mathematics of the Normal. Mr. Kelso read on “Ahmes’ Mathematical Papers/* He compared the methods used by the mathematician, A limes, who was an Egyptian living several centuries before the timo of Christ, to the methods of .Archemedes. the great Grecian philosopher. Particular attention was paid to determining the value of the ratio between the circumference and diameter of the circle.The second paper was read by Dr. VY. A. Noyes of the Rose Polytechnic Institute, on “Recent Developments in the Electro-litic Process/* Mr. Noyes explained the methods of preparation of alum, caustic soda, copper, silver sodium and nitric acid hy means of the electrolysis. Several dif- ! ferent processes wer explained for the ^making of caustic soda by the electrolisis, And IT- Noyes took special pains in telling of the electrical process now being u»3d in the manufacture of various chemical compounds at Niagara Falls.
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Terre Haute Daily Tribune
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Fri, Feb 20, 1903
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