The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission
År: 1893
Sider: 163
UDK: 061.4(100) Chicago
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HISTORICAL NOTES
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man, author of the beautiful work Mind in Nature, was of
great importance in other directions. His aim, at which he
fully arrived, was to make known natural science in the
widest possible circles. He was the founder of the still exist-
ing Society for the propagation of natural science, and he con-
tributed to the establishment of the Engineering College of
Copenhagen, whose director he was for 22 years.
H. C. Ørsted.
Through Ørsted natural science has got quite a different
position in Denmark to what it had before; it has got in
touch with practical life, as may be seen from the work of
Mr. R. Malling-Hansen (1835—1890), manager of the Deaf
and Dumb Institution. He was endowed with great inventive
powers which for one thing appeared in his invention of a
good type-writer. Daily weighings of the deaf and dumb
children under his care led him into the study of natural
philosophy. The result he arrived at was that the weight
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