Tesla, Nicola
Nicola (1857-), a noted electrical engineer. Tesla was born in Austrian Croatia. He was educated at Gratz. Prague, and Budapest. He was employed for some time by his native government in the department of telegraphy. He went to Paris as electrical engineer for a lighting company, then crossed the Atlantic to the United States , believing this to be a promising field for electrical expansion. For a time Tesla was engaged by the Edison Company. Later he set up a laboratory for himself in New York City. Tesla is noted as an original investigator in electrical fields. He has contributed a number of able articles to the scientific periodicals, and has invented numerous improvements in dynamos, induction coils, arc lamps, incandescent lamps, steam engines, etc. He had a hand in the installation of the machinery used to transmit power from Niagara Falls. Among American electrical engineers Tesla ranks second only to Thomas Edison.
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Tessellated Pavement
a pave- , made of ment of rich mosaic work or tiles, in squares of marbles, bricks, dice shape and disposition resembling , and known as tesseræ.
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Tessellated Pavement
a pavement of rich mosaic work, made of squares of marbles, bricks, or tiles, in shape and disposition resembling dice, and known as tesseræ.
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Tessera (Small cubical or other)
a small cubical or other earthenware, geometrical form of marble, , used for tessellated ivory, glass, etc. walls, etc., colpavements, ornamenting , usually cubical, laid ored tiles or bricks pavement. In anin patterns, as a mosaic of wood, bone, or tiquity, a small piece ticket of admission metal, used as a , or as to the theaters in ancient Rome gladiators, containa certificate given to of the consul, and ing their names, that they had won their the day on which . distinction in the circus
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Tessera (Small cubical or other) (II)
a small cubical or other geometrical form of marble, earthenware, ivory, glass, etc., used for tessellated pavements, ornamenting walls, etc., colored tiles or bricks, usually cubical, laid in patterns, as a mosaic pavement. In antiquity, a small piece of wood, bone, or metal, used as a ticket of admission to the theaters in ancient Rome, or as a certificate given to gladiators, containing their names, that of the consul, and the day on which they had won their distinction in the circus.
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Test Act
in English history, an act passed in 1563 by which an oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth, and of abjuration of the temporal authority of the Pope, was exacted of all holders of office, lay or spiritual, within the realm, except peers, Also, an act passed in 1678, by which it was enacted that all persons holding any important office, civil or military, under the crown or receiving money therefrom, should take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, subscribe a declaration against transubstantiation, and receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Established Church. It was repealed in 1828.
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Test Acts
in English history, acts prescribing religious tests as a requisite for holding office. They were designed to prevent all but members of the established, that is to say, the Episcopal church , from holding office. The term applies more directly to two English statutes. The act of 1673 required magistrates to take oaths of allegiance to the crown, acknowledging the king or queen to be the lawful head of the church. This act was directed particularly at the Catholics, who recognized the pope only as the earthly head of the church. The act of 1685 prescribed a similar oath for all offices both in the army and in the civil service . The acts had not been on the statute books very long before the public became ashamed of them. The acts were evaded. Persons not members of the Church of England took office, and Parliament passed an act annually pardoning them for doing so. In 1829 the acts were formally repealed. The universities also had special tests which they imposed upon students applying for admission, and more particularly upon those who sought positions as instructors.
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Test Oath (Prescribed by the United)
an oath prescribed by the United States Congress July 2, 1862, to be taken by persons in the former Confederate States appointed to office under the National government. The text was as follows: "I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countecounsel, or encouragement to persons neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in TESTUDINIDE hostility to the United States; that I have not any pretended yielded a voluntary support to government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) knowledge and ability, that, to the best of my I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same that I take this obligation freely, without any nental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God."
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Testacella (Zo logy and pal ontology)
in zoölogy and palæontology, a genus of Limacidæ, with three recent species, from the S. of Europe, the Canary Isles. and Great Britain. Shell small and ear-shaped, placed at hinder extremity of the body which is elongated, broadest behind, tapering toward the head. The species are subterranean in habit, feeding on earthworms, and visiting the surface only at night. During the winter and in long periods of drought they form a sort of cocoon in the ground by the of mucous; if this be broken away the exudation animal may be seen in its thin, opaque, white mantle, which rapidly contracts till it extends but a little_way beyond the margin of the shell. Fossil species two, from Tertiary strata.
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Testi
FULVIO, COUNT, an Italian poet; born in Ferrara, Italy, Aug. 23, He was one of the most notable lyric poets of Italy in his time. Besides songs and ballads, he wrote: "Arsinda; ity the electrical conductor is variable, or, the Line of the Princes d'Este," a drama; "The Isle of Alcina," a tragedy; an uncompleted "Italy," a poem in 43 stanzas in which epic, "Constantine"; he portrays the situation of Italy under the Spanish yoke. He died in Modena. Italy, Aug. 28, 1646. various substances by means of chemical
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