Cornell University, 377
Corrie, summer at, 212-217
Cortlandt Street cracker factory, 72-76, 78-95
Coulomb’s law, 227, 228
Cracker-factory experiences, 72-76, 78-95
Crawford, F. Marion, 125, 143
Crocker, Professor Francis Bacon, 273, 279-282, 285, 286, 302, 310
Crookes, William, 303
Curie, Madame, 350
Custozza (battle), 7, 9
Danube, journey on, 23-25
Darboux, 257
Darwin, 91, 195
Davy, 202
Dayton, New Jersey, farm experiences, 66-68
Declaration of Independence, 56, 75, 76, 78, 79, 98, 103, 153, 163
De Forest, Lee, 342, 358
Delaware farm experiences, 45-56
Democracy, 383-387
De Morgan, Professor, 176
Dennis, Doctor Frederick Shepard, 323-324
Dernburg, 69
de Tocqueville, 203, 204, 256, 319, 320
Devonshire, Duke of, 273
DeWitt, 121
Dindorf (philologist), 131
Direct current theory, 283-289
Discharge of electricity in corona form, 293
Distortions in alternating current, 294
Draper, Doctor John William, 122, 202, 290, 291, 320, 375
Duncan, Doctor Louis, 289
Dunn, Gano, 292, 367, 368
Eastman, George, 375
Eastman Kodak Company, 341
Ebert, 293
Edison, Thomas, 135, 299, 307, 309, 319
Edison General Electric Company, 287, 289
Eilers (of cracker factory), 72
Einstein, 354-356
Electrical Congress, Chicago, 287, 289
Electrical Engineering Department, Columbia, 276-310
_Electrical Researches_ (Faraday), 211, 213, 222-229
Electricity, _passim_
_Electricity_, 308, 309
Electromagnetic Induction, 133, 134
Electromagnetic theory of light and matter, 211, 218-229, 236-241,
264-271, 278, 293-295, 303-306, 349-351, 354-358
Electron Physics, 353-358
Electrons, 349-352, 356, 357, 381
Emmet, Devereux, 119
Engineering Foundation, 365-368
English, study of, 50, 55, 88
Ericsson, 78
Ether, 354, 355
Eugene of Savoy, Prince, 5
Evarts, William, 93
_Evening Post_, New York, 93
Evolution, 384-387
Ewing, General Thomas, 102
_Experimental Researches in Electricity_ (Faraday), 211, 213, 222-229
Farad (electrical unit), 273
Faraday, Michael, 133-135, 193, 195, 199, 202, 205, 210-213, 215,
219-230, 233-241, 243, 245, 246, 249, 264, 267, 268, 270-274, 278,
281, 284, 303, 305, 306, 349, 351, 380
_Faraday as Discoverer_ (Tyndall), 235
Fayerweather Laboratory, 376
Fehispan, governor of Torontal, 161-164
Fish, Frederick P., 340
Fiske, 352
Fizeau, 257
Fluorescent screens, 307, 309
Foucault, 257
Fourier, 257
France, summer in, 187-189;
visit to, 257, 258, 262
Francis, Emperor, 5
Francis Joseph, Emperor, 9, 22
Franklin, Benjamin, 12, 13, 19, 29, 39, 45, 57, 74, 105, 124, 193,
202, 266, 312, 315, 360
Franklin Institute, 348
Fred (friend of Jim the engineer), 83
Frederick, Crown Prince, 233, 275
Frederick the Great, 5-7
French scientific progress, 257, 262
Fresnel, 204, 257
Frushka Gora (mountain), 24
Gabriel, son of Milutin, 165-169
Gaenserndorf, 25, 26, 28
Galileo, 193-195, 221, 297, 333
Gallatin, Albert R., 296
Garibaldi, 8, 9
Geltner, Professor, 275
General Electric Company, 289, 341, 358
General Relativity Theory, 355
Generators, electrical, 281, 282
Germans, 30, 31, 35;
social democracy, 89;
scientific progress, 208, 256-264 _et passim_
Germany, studies in, 229-278, 318, 338
Gessler, 147
Ghiga (peasant), 161
Gibbons, Cardinal, 59, 60
Gibbs, Professor Josiah Willard, 184, 186, 207, 256, 257, 277, 278
Godfather of author, 160
Goethe, 86
Goldstein, Doctor, 303-305
Goodyear, 319
Graduation from Columbia, 136, 137
Grant, 79
Gravitation, nature of, 354
Green, Mr. (of Marconi Co.), 343-345
Grounding, importance of electrical, 301, 302
Hale, Doctor George Ellery, 294, 362, 367, 368
Hamilton, Alexander, 100, 101, 103, 107, 118, 121, 128, 193, 315
Hamilton, Duke of, 212
Hamilton Hall, Columbia University, 100, 101
Harding, President Warren G., 386, 387
Harvard University, 256, 376
Hayduk Velyko, 6, 54, 55
Hayes, 91, 93
Heat, nature of, 76, 185, 186
_Heat as a Mode of Motion_ (Tyndall), 102
Heaviside, 333-335
Hebert Prize of French Academy, 348
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 193, 195, 200, 208, 210, 218, 225, 230-243,
248, 249, 251, 256-258, 260-264, 271, 275, 277, 287, 289, 294, 295,
298, 299, 303-305, 341, 344
Henry (electrical unit), 273
Henry, Frank, 114, 115
Henry, Joseph, 77, 183, 201, 202, 205, 220, 266, 271-274, 284, 290,
291, 319, 320, 358, 366, 375
Henry, Patrick, 88
Herdsman, experiences in Idvor as, 14-21, 301, 302, 333, 334
Hermite, 257
Herschel, William, 202
Hertz, Doctor Heinrich, 219, 221, 228, 263-272, 301, 305
Hertzian oscillator, 265-270
Hilendar (monastery), 70
Hittorf, 303
Hoffman, 263
Hohenzollern, William, 112
Homer, 86, 112, 130, 131
Hook, 334
Hoover, Herbert, 314
Horace, 87
Horse training in Norfolk, 324-326
Howe, 77
Hunt, Robert, 102, 130
Huss, Yan, 33
Hutchinson, Doctor Cary T., 337
Huxley, 91
Idealism in American science, 311-384
Idvor, life and experiences in, 2-22, 34, 36, 138-143, 156-169,
189-191, 215, 242-248, 301, 302, 346
Inductance coils, 335-342, 345
Induction, Electromagnetic, 133, 134
Jackson, A. V. Williams, 275, 276
Jacoby, 352
Jay, John, 100, 101, 103, 107, 121, 143, 315
Jefferson, Thomas, 74, 315
Jefferson physical laboratory, Harvard, 256, 376
Jim (boiler-room engineer), 74-76, 78-85, 92, 95, 104, 106, 108,
130, 193
Johns Hopkins University, 59, 60, 183, 184, 198, 199, 288-292, 376
Karageorge, 6-9
Karlovci, 23, 24, 26, 30, 57, 68, 77, 97, 153-155, 162
Kellogg, Doctor Vernon, 373, 375
Kelvin, Lord (Sir William Thomson), 182, 183, 266, 287, 304, 332, 333,
335, 338, 363
Kepler, 204
Kessedjia, Moussa, 115
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert, 204, 233, 258, 261, 263, 332, 333, 335, 338
Koenig, Professor Arthur, 230-232, 234, 235, 240, 241, 248, 249
Kos (Slovenian teacher), 19-21, 32, 76, 95, 241, 244, 266, 312
Kossovo (battle), 7, 54
Kossuth, 163
Krupp, 259
Labor Bureau, Castle Garden, 40, 41
La Grange, 187, 189, 190, 193, 194, 204, 206, 207, 210, 213, 257, 330,
331, 335, 338, 339, 348
Lansing, Robert, 2
Laplace, 187, 257
Lectures given for laboratory equipment, 280, 281
Lenard, Professor, 305
Leopold I, Emperor, 3, 4
_Life of Maxwell_ (Campbell), 187
Light, nature of, 19-21, 133, 144, 166, 171, 201, 202, 211, 218-221,
240, 244, 271
Lincoln, Abraham, 8, 9, 29, 39, 55,
74, 79, 92, 105, 107, 193, 315, 319, 360, 366, 372
Lines of force, 226-230, 236-240, 265-271
Ling (of King’s College choir), 172
Lippmann, 257
Livingston, Chancellor, 100, 101, 103, 107, 121, 137
Longfellow, Henry W., 87, 102, 149
Lorentz, Professor, 355
Low, President, 307, 331
Lucerne experiences, 146-150
Lukanitch family, 95-99, 105, 106, 116, 136
Lyermontoff (poet), 18
Lyubomir, 168
Macmillan homestead, Corrie, 216, 217
Macnamara, Jane, 82, 86
Madge of Corrie, 213, 214, 216
Magnetism, 218-229
Marconi, 301, 302
Marconi Company of America, 343-345, 347
Maria Theresa, Empress, 5
Marko, Prince, 8, 9, 29, 46, 54, 55, 115, 195
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 359
Matter, nature of, 218-221, 354. _See also_ Electrons, Atomic
structure, etc.
_Matter and Motion_ (Maxwell), 179, 185, 193
Maxwell, James Clerk, 133-135, 144, 145, 153, 166, 171, 174-176,
179-181, 183-187, 190, 193-195, 197, 198, 200, 201, 204, 206, 208,
210-214, 217-222, 229, 234-243, 249, 256, 264, 267, 270-274, 278,
284, 303, 305, 306, 320, 321, 350, 352, 380
Mayo-Smith, Professor Richmond, 128
McCormick, 77, 319
McCullough, John, 89
_Méchanique Analytique_ (La Grange), 189, 193
“Men of Progress” (painting), 77, 78, 130, 319
Merriam, Professor, 128, 131, 134, 135, 143
Michael (college janitor), 114
Michelson, 354, 355
Miletich, Svetozar, 21, 22
Milton, 102
Moltke, 253, 261, 262, 275
Momentum in electricity, 297, 298
Morley, 354, 355
Morse, 77, 319
Motion, electric (in rarefied gases), 303-306
Moula Pasha, 6
Mount Wilson Astronomical Observatory, 294, 362, 367
Mueller (glass-blower), 303, 304
Napoleon, 5-7
Nassau Hall, Princeton, 69, 72, 84, 87, 88, 99, 101, 103
National Academy of Sciences, 205, 272, 360, 366, 367, 369
National Institute of Social Sciences, 339, 348
National Research Council, 317, 366-383, 387
Naturalization, 136, 137
_Nature_, 192, 200, 201, 205, 206, 208, 221, 236
Nemanya, Zhupan, 10
“Neptune, Father,” 139-142
Nettleton, Mr. (of Norfolk), 327-329
New England Cracker Factory, 72-76, 78-95
New Physics, 349, 353-358
New York, landing in, 37-42
New York Academy of Sciences, 309
New York Mathematical Society, 352
New York Rapid Transit Commission, 289
Newton, 174, 177, 179, 180, 186, 193-196, 204, 210, 211, 221, 225,
282, 283, 296, 334, 381
Niagara Falls Power and Construction Company, 287, 288
Nikola (Serbian cigarette seller), 252-254, 258, 274-276
Niven, W. D., 143-146, 156, 171, 174-176, 178, 180, 181, 186, 197, 240
Norfolk, Conn., life at, 322-329
Nyegosh, Bishop (poet), 20, 68, 112
Octagon class, 119, 121
Oerstedt, 221, 224
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 71
Oscillator, Hertzian, 265-270, 301, 302
Oxen herding in Idvor, 14-21, 301, 302, 333, 334
Palacky, 31-33
Panchevo, experiences in, 12, 20-24, 29, 31, 35, 154-156, 163, 312-318
Paris peace conference, 2, 312, 314, 315
Parkinson, Stephen, 182, 183
Parsons, William Barclay, 286
Pashitch, Premier, 312
Paul (of the cracker factory), 79, 80
Penn, William, 45, 57
Perrin, 349
Philadelphia, early experiences in, 56, 57
Phonograph, 299, 300
Physical Society, Berlin, 263-271
Physics, New and Electron, 349, 353-358
Pickernell, Mr., 335
Planck, 261, 277
_Plea for Pure Science, A_ (Rowland), 291
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 105-108, 129
_Poetry of Science, The_ (Hunt), 102
Poincaré, 257
Pornic, vacation in, 187-189
Power distribution, electrical, 289
_Practical Aspects of the Alternating Current Theory_ (Pupin),
lecture, 283, 284
Prague, experiences in, 21-35, 163, 164, 248
Preceptorial system in college, 326
Princeton University, 69-72, 84, 87, 101, 143, 272, 316, 326
Privilegia (document), 4, 5, 9
Problems of physical universe, 354
Prussians, 247-255. _See also_ Germans
Pupin coil, 335-342, 345
Pupin, Constantine (father of author), 2, 21-23, 34, 158
Pupin, Mrs. Michael, 276-278, 292, 310, 322, 330-332
Pupin, Olympiada (mother of author), 2, 10-12, 22, 23, 34, 157-160,
168, 169, 190, 191, 215, 242-246, 249-251, 255
Pyne, Moses Taylor, 69
Radichevich, Branko, 154
Radio, 295-299, 303, 342, 343, 357, 358
Radioactivity, 350, 351, 381
Radium, 350
Rayleigh, Lord, 144, 175, 176, 181, 184, 197, 213, 240, 330, 352
Regnault, 182
Relativity theories, 355
Research, progress of America in, 279-384
Resonance, 295-299
Resonators, electrical, 295-301
Reymond, DuBois, 258, 263
Rieger, 31-33
Rittenhouse, 202
Rives, George, 143
Rives, Reginald, 326
Rockefeller, John D., 375
Rockefeller Foundation, 371
Rockefeller General Education Board, 371
Roentgen, 305, 306, 349, 350
Roentgen rays, 302, 303, 305, 329, 349, 380. _See also_ X-rays
Rood, Professor, 133, 134, 199
Routh, Doctor John Edward, 174-180, 182, 185-187, 189, 197, 213
Rowland, Henry Augustus, 183, 184, 256, 287-292, 295, 298, 299,
352-354, 357, 358
Royal Serbian Academy, 317
Rumford, Count (Benjamin Thompson), 202, 218
Rutherford, Sir Ernest, 352, 353
Rutherford Park, N. J., summer at, 111-113
Rutherfurd, Lewis, 122
Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, 122-129, 133-135, 144
Rutherfurd, Winthrop, 122-126, 144
Ryerson Laboratory, 376
St. Sava, 10-12, 33, 35, 68, 70, 77, 141, 158, 250
School life in Idvor, 10-12;
in Panchevo, 12
_Science_, 309
_Scientific American_, 74
Scientific progress and research, 202-206, 218-230, 256-264, 279-310,
311-384 _et passim_
Scientific research, American progress in, 279-310
Scientific research and the universities, 341-343, 358-360, 375, 376
Scotland, summer in, 212-217
Serbian Child Welfare Association of America, 312
Serbs, 1-28, 151-168 _et passim_
Shakespeare, 86, 89, 129
Shepard, Doctor Charles, 108-111, 136
Siemens, Ernst Werner von, 260, 275, 289, 344
Siemens and Halske, 344, 345
Signalling by herdsmen of Idvor, 15-21, 301, 302, 333, 334
Sing Sing prison, 284, 287
Singers, Serbian, 155
Sloan Laboratory, 376
Smith, Professor Monroe, 128
Smithsonian Institution, 272
Snellius, 204
Sobiesky, King, 3
Solar corona, 293
Solar phenomena, electromagnetic theory of, 293, 294
Sorbonne, the, 257
Sound, early herdsman’s experiments, 15-21, 301, 302;
transmission, 333
South St. Mary, Md., 58
Special Relativity Theory, 355
Sprague, Frank J., 287
Steel industry, German, 259
Stillwell, Lewis B., 287
Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, 175, 181, 192, 197, 204, 213, 240
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 39, 105
Strazhilovo, Will, 162
Subways, 289
_Summary and Conclusions_ (Tyndall), 204-208
_Sun_, New York, 74, 93, 94
Swasey, Ambrose, 363-365, 368, 369, 375
Swift Company, 344
Switzerland, experiences in, 146-150, 208, 330, 331
Telegraphy, 234, 300, 347, 348
Telephony, 299, 300, 331-342, 345-348
Tell, William, 147
_Tendencies of Modern Electrical Research_ (Pupin), 309
Tesla, 285
_Theory of Heat_ (Maxwell), 185, 193
Theses for doctor’s degree, 277
Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist, 259, 260
Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford), 202, 218
Thomson, Elihu, 284, 286, 287, 289
Thomson-Houston Company, 287, 289
Thomson, Sir John Joseph, 198, 292, 293, 306, 349, 350, 352, 356, 381
Thomson, Sir William (Lord Kelvin), 182, 183, 266, 287, 304, 332, 333,
335, 338, 363
Tilden, 91
Tilton, 105
Tolstoy, 152
Traction, electrical, 286, 287
Traditions, 104, 105, 120, 121
_Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers_, 299
Transmission and motion of electricity, 287, 303-306
_Tribune_, New York, 91
Tuning, electrical, 19, 295-299. _See also_ Radio
Tyndall, John, 102, 130, 132, 186, 199-213, 220-222, 230, 235, 236,
240, 283, 291, 321, 351, 377
Tyndall Fellowship, 199, 209
_Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ (Stowe), 29, 39, 105, 156
United Engineering Society, 361-365
Vacuum tubes, 303-306, 349, 357, 358
Van Amringe, Professor Howard, 128, 352
_Van Nostrand Magazine_, 179
Vaschy, 333-335
Velocity, electrical, 234
Vibratory motion, transmission of, 330-338
Vienna experiences, 97, 150-152, 154, 155
“Vila” of Delaware farm, 47-58, 80, 88
Vila Raviyoyla, 195
Vitellio, 204
Vreeland, Mr. (inventor of oscillator), 19
War, World, 312, 315, 316, 333, 334, 344, 359, 360, 366, 369-371, 376
Warner, Mr., 364
Warner and Swasey shops, 364
Washington, George, 54, 55, 100, 137, 193, 315, 372
Washington, Martha, 54
Watt, James, 75
Webster, Arthur Gordon, 255-257, 308
Webster, Daniel, 88, 315
Webster, Professor at Adelphi Academy, 108, 109
Welch, Professor William, 184
Western Electric Company, 340, 358
Westinghouse Company, 284, 341
_Westphalia_ (ship), 35-39, 138
Wheeler, Doctor Schuyler Skaats, 361
White, Andrew D., 203, 220, 274, 320, 375, 377, 378
Widener, Mr., 326
William I, Emperor, 252, 275
Wilson, President Woodrow, 2, 71, 313-315, 367, 369, 370
“Wilson Day” in Panchevo, 312-318
Wireless, 295-299, 303, 342, 343, 357, 358
_Worcester Gazette_, 308
World War, 312, 315, 316, 333, 334, 344, 359, 360, 366, 369-371, 376
X-rays, 305-310, 330, 332, 350, 351. _See also_ Roentgen rays
Yale University, 184, 185, 376
Yevrosima (mother of Prince Marko), 54, 195
Youmans, 320
Young, Professor Charles A., 293
Young, Thomas, 204
Zhivkovich, Protoyeray, 20, 22, 31, 32, 156, 316
Zhizhka (general), 33
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