kirchhof's

Updated: July 10, 2026

Gassiot and Professor Plücher had published their experiments on the stratification of the electric light; and that series of discoveries by scientific men abroad, but chiefly by our own philosophers at home, which had been in progress for a course of years, prepared the way for Bunsen and Kirchhof's marvellous consummation.

Mary Somerville - Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville