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3. ramassles: compact. 



4. livre passage : makes room for (lit., offers a passage). 



5. ne font que naitre : are only just born. 



XXXVI. APPLICATIONS INDUSTRIELLES DE L'ELECTRICITE. 

 A. Applications mecaniques. 



1. tirer parti: utilize, profit by. 



2. avec Pinterme'diaire de: by the aid of. 



3. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50^ go, 70, read : premierement, deuxiemement, etc 



4. mis en jeu : brought into play. 



5. synchronisms de marche : synchronism of movement. 



6. administrations : institutions. 



7. point d'arret : end (lit., finishing point). 



8. mettre a Pabri de : to shelter from. 



B. Applications physiques. 



1. en mettant & contribution: by employing (lit., calling into 

 requisition.) 



2. faire jouer les mines : to fire. 



XXXVII. QU'EST-CE QUE L'ELECTRICITE ? 



1. Milet en lonie: Miletus, an ancient city in Ionia, a portion of 

 the west coast of Asia Minor, adjoining the Aegean sea and bounded 

 by Lydia on the east. 



2. Thales : Thales of Miletus is generally recognized as the first 

 Greek to systematize and teach geometry, astronomy, and philosophy. 



3. Aristote: Aristotle, perhaps the greatest ancient philosopher, 

 born in Stagira, a Greek colony of Macedonia, in 384 B.C. 



4. Archimede : Archimedes, the greatest mathematician and the 

 most inventive genius of antiquity, was born at Syracuse, in Sicily, 

 about 287 B.C. 



5. traite* de magnete. De magnete (lat.) : concerning the magnet. 



6. Otto de Gue'ricke (Goricke) : an experimental philosopher, dis- 

 tinguished for his original discovery of the properties of air, was born 

 at Magdeburg (Prussia), November 20, 1602. He was the first to ob- 

 serve repulsion between electrified bodies, and was the inventor of the 

 first electrical machine. 



