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See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS, See also:SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885) , See also:British inventor, was See also:born on the 16th of Apiil 185o at Canonbury, See also:London. His See also:father, a Welshman, was in the See also:civil service, and his See also:mother was the daughter of the Rev. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Gilchrist. His father's See also:death leaving his See also:family with a considerably reduced income, he gave up his See also:original See also:idea of becoming a See also:doctor and obtained an See also:appointment as a See also:police See also:court clerk, which he held till May 1879. During these twelve years, besides the See also:work of a busy police court, which brought him into intimate contact with social problems, he found See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to study See also:chemistry, and attended lectures at the See also:Birkbeck See also:Institute. He set himself to solve the problem of eliminating See also:phosphorus from See also:iron by means of the See also:Bessemer converter, and by the end of 1875 was convinced that he had discovered a method. He communicated his theory to his See also:cousin, P. C. Gilchrist, who was chemist to iron See also:works in See also:Wales, and experiments were made, which proved satisfactory. See also:Edward See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin, manager of the See also:Blaenavon Works, gave facilities for conducting the experiments on a larger See also:scale and undertook to help in taking out a patent. In See also:March 1878, the first public announcement of the See also:discovery was made at the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the Iron and See also:Steel Institute, but without attracting much See also:attention; and in See also:September a See also:paper was wiitten by Thomas and Gilchrist on the "Elimination of Phosphorus in the Bessemer Converter " for the autumn meeting of this institute, but was not read till May 1879. Thomas, however, made the acquaintance of E. W. See also:Richards, the manager of Boickow See also:Vaughan & Co.'s works at See also:Cleveland, See also:Yorkshire, whom he interested in the See also:process, and from this time the success of the invention was assured and domestic and See also:foreign See also:patents were taken out. The " basic process " invented by Thomas was especially valuable on the See also:continent of See also:Europe, where the proportion of phosphoric iron is much larger than in See also:England, and both in See also:Belgium and in See also:Germany the name of the inventor became more widely known than in his own See also:country. In See also:America, although non-phosphoric iron largely predominates, an immense See also:interest was taken in the invention. But Thomas had been overworking for years, and his lungs became affected. A See also:long See also:sea voyage and a See also:residence in See also:Egypt proved unavailing to restore his See also:health and he died in See also:Paris on the 1st of See also:February 1885. He had what W. E. See also:Gladstone, in a See also:review of the See also:Memoirs published in 1891, described as an " See also:enthusiasm of humanity," and he See also:left his See also:fortune to be used for the promotion of philanthropic work. A police court See also:mission was endowed in his memory.
See Memoirs and Letters of Sidney'Gilchrist Thomas (1891), ed. by R. W. Burnie.
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