lelande

Updated: May 28, 2025

The elements used may be bichromate of potash ones, those of Lelande and Chaperon, etc. To this apparatus there may be added a second bobbin of coarser wire into which is passed a current from a local pile. This produces a much intenser magnetic field, and, consequently, louder sounds. This modification, however, is really useful only for long distances.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885

These observations were of great service to the astronomers, as they afforded the opportunity of comparing the stars of the southern hemisphere with those of the northern, which were being observed simultaneously by Lelande at Berlin.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science — Volume 3