Schilling
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Definition
(n.) Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
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Examples
- It closely resembled in general features the telegraph of Baron de Schilling. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Ampère and of Baron de Schilling, though in some respects not so efficient as either, for its action was slow, and it required a separate wire for each letter of the alphabet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Baron de Schilling's alarum was very simple. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Another step made by Baron de Schilling was the invention of an alarum to call attention when a message was about to be sent. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Schilling proposes use of Electricity to blow up mines. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the field during this decade also labored the German professors Gauss and Weber, and Baron Schilling of Russia. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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