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The sanctity of life as a sacred value
Bioethics, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 32-39, January 2023., 2023 Abstract The doctrine of the sanctity of life has traditionally been characterised as a Judeo‐Christian doctrine that has it that bodily human life is an intrinsic good and that it is always impermissible to kill an innocent human. Abortion and euthanasia are often assumed to violate the doctrine.
Steve Clarke
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THE COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ROMANIAN ARMY IN THE WAR FOR UNIFYING THE NATION. CONCLUSIONS AND LESSONS LEARNED FOR ROMANIAN ART OF WAR [PDF]
Annals: Series on Military Sciences, 2017 This paper explores the stages of organization and equipping that occurred in the communications of the Romanian army and the creation of the first specialized sub-units, preparation and participation in the War of Independence (1877- 1878) with further
Gheorghe BOARU
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Galvanometers and the Invention of Self-Balancing Recorders
Measurement + Control, 1993 This paper describes the history of ink recorders from their use with the first submerged transatlantic cable to the invention of self-balancing recorders.
Eiju Matsumoto
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Prometheus, 2002 It is increasingly apparent that the roots of current global transformation lie very much in the middle to late nineteenth century and the raft of basic political, economic, socio-cultural and technological changes that occurred at this time.
Peter Mcmahon
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The Daniell Cell, Ohm's Law and the Emergence of the International System of Units [PDF]
Amer. J. Phys. 82 (2014) 60, 2015 Telegraphy originated in the 1830s and 40s and flourished in the following decades, but with a patchwork of electrical standards. Electromotive force was for the most part measured in units of the predominant Daniell cell. Each company had their own resistance standard.
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Blondel et les oscillations auto-entretenues [PDF]
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 66, 5 (2012) 485-530, 2014 In 1893, the "physicist-engineer" Andr\'e Blondel invents the oscilloscope for displaying voltage and current variables. With this powerful means of investigation, he first studies the phenomena of the arc then used for the coastal and urban lighting and then, the singing arc used as a transmitter of radio waves in wireless telegraphy.
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Etherealization in a Racial Regime of Ownership: Marconi in O‘ahu, circa 1900
Media + Environment, 2021 This article traces the emergence of wireless telegraphy in the Hawaiian Islands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Centrally, I argue that for an ascendant haole (white settler) planter class, wirelessness proffered potent resources ...
Tyler Morgenstern
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