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- Frontmatter
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS
- CHAPTER II A SUMMER TOUR
- CHAPTER III A ‘DOUBLE LIFE’
- CHAPTER IV THE PROBLEM OF DEPHOSPHORISATION
- CHAPTER V YEARS OF EQUIPMENT
- CHAPTER VI THE PROBLEM THEORETICALLY SOLVED—A GERMAN TOUR
- CHAPTER VII ‘TECHNICAL TRAVEL TALK’
- CHAPTER VIII EXPERIMENTS—A DASH INTO SWITZERLAND
- CHAPTER IX THE BASIC PROCESS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED
- CHAPTER X THE BASIC PROCESS DESCRIBED
- CHAPTER XI TRIUMPH
- CHAPTER XII DÜSSELDORF—A GATHERING CLOUD
- CHAPTER XIII A VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES
- CHAPTER XIV HEALTH FAILS IN EARNEST
- CHAPTER XV SOUTH AFRICA
- CHAPTER XVI MAURITIUS AND INDIA
- CHAPTER XVII CEYLON, AND THE VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER XVIII AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER XIX HOMEWARD BOUND
- CHAPTER XX A SAD HOME-COMING AND A FLIGHT SOUTH
- CHAPTER XXI A WINTER IN ALGIERS
- CHAPTER XXII THE LAST DAYS IN PARIS
- CONCLUSION
CHAPTER III - A ‘DOUBLE LIFE’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- Contents
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS
- CHAPTER II A SUMMER TOUR
- CHAPTER III A ‘DOUBLE LIFE’
- CHAPTER IV THE PROBLEM OF DEPHOSPHORISATION
- CHAPTER V YEARS OF EQUIPMENT
- CHAPTER VI THE PROBLEM THEORETICALLY SOLVED—A GERMAN TOUR
- CHAPTER VII ‘TECHNICAL TRAVEL TALK’
- CHAPTER VIII EXPERIMENTS—A DASH INTO SWITZERLAND
- CHAPTER IX THE BASIC PROCESS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED
- CHAPTER X THE BASIC PROCESS DESCRIBED
- CHAPTER XI TRIUMPH
- CHAPTER XII DÜSSELDORF—A GATHERING CLOUD
- CHAPTER XIII A VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES
- CHAPTER XIV HEALTH FAILS IN EARNEST
- CHAPTER XV SOUTH AFRICA
- CHAPTER XVI MAURITIUS AND INDIA
- CHAPTER XVII CEYLON, AND THE VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER XVIII AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER XIX HOMEWARD BOUND
- CHAPTER XX A SAD HOME-COMING AND A FLIGHT SOUTH
- CHAPTER XXI A WINTER IN ALGIERS
- CHAPTER XXII THE LAST DAYS IN PARIS
- CONCLUSION
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- Memoirs and Letters of Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Inventor , pp. 23 - 29Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1891