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Barlow (PETER an English physicist)

PETER, an English physicist and mathematician, born at Noremy at Woolwich for a period of 40 years. In 1823, he was elected a Fellow Mathematics in the Royal Military Acadof the Royal Society, and in 1825 reyears. In 1823, he was elected a Fellow researches in magnetism. In 1829 he was admitted a member of the French Institute. "Machinery and Manufactures of Great

His greatest work is the Britain" (1837); "Force and Rapidity of tionary." He was also the author of Locomotives" (1838); and "Essay and Magnetic Attraction," one of the first died in 1862. works in which the phenomena of mag- Magnetic Attraction," one of the first of Khorassan, the romance of vhose history is equally familiar to Europeans and works in which the phenomena of mag- Americans in the "Arabian Nights Entertainments," and to Orientals in the pages of their historians and poets; and who flourished at the Court of the early tertainments," and to Orientals in the the founder of the family, transmitted the honors conferred on him by the Caliph Abd-al-Malik to his son, Khalid, and from him they passed to his son, Yahia, who, becoming tutor to the fafluence over that Prince, which carried and from him they passed to his son, mous Haroun-al-Raschid, acquired an in- Yahia, who, becoming tutor to the famous Haroun-al-Raschid, acquired an incence of the Barmecides were, for a long period, displayed under favor of Haroun; BARMEN but one of the brothers, Giaffar, having at last become an object of suspicion to the Caliph, Yahia and his sons were suddenly seized, Giaffar beheaded, and the others condemned to perpetual imprisonment. The year 802 is assigned as the date of this tragedy.