Thompson
['tɔmpsn]
Definition
(noun.) English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814).
(noun.) United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada) noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora (1906-2000).
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Examples
- Thompson_ DEEP SEA MONSTER CAPTURED OFF FLORIDA So far as the scientific world is concerned, this is the only fish of its kind ever captured. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thompson moved light and had no fixed place for even nominal headquarters. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The chief personage aboard proved to be Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior under the administration of President Buchanan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Thompson in 1845 and in the United States May 8, 1847, No. 5,104. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- McClernand's advance met the enemy about five miles west of Port Gibson at Thompson's plantation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Thompson, a sort of independent or partisan commander who was disputing with us the possession of south-east Missouri. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Thompson had been broken up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I find it in Mr. Thompson's Land and the Book. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Other early inventors were Hart of Scotland, Siemens of Germany, Thompson and Houston of England, and Farmer, Brush, Wallace, Maxim, and Weston and Westinghouse of America. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thompson of the yacht Samoa, one of the yacht’s crew, and a winter visitor to southern Florida. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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