Joseph, 1797–1878, U.S. physicist.
O., pen name of William Sydney Porter.
Patrick, 1736–99, American patriot, orator, and statesman.
Cape, a cape in SE Virginia at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
Fort. Fort Henry.
a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “home” and “kingdom.”
Joseph. 1797–1878, US physicist. He discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction independently of Faraday and constructed the first electromagnetic motor (1829). He also discovered self-induction and the oscillatory nature of electric discharges (1842)
Patrick. 1736–99, American statesman and orator, a leading opponent of British rule during the War of American Independence
Prince, known as Harry. born 1984, second son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales
First recorded in 1890–95; named after J. Henry
After Benjamin Tyler Henry (1821–98), U.S. inventor who designed it
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From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2014
The jury saw an email from Goodman to colleagues sent on 14 April 2006 which said William and his friends were "upsetting other guests with their braying hooray henry antics".
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2013
The units of inductance commonly used in radio work are the millihenry, which is the thousandth part of a henry; and the centimeter of inductance, which is one one-thousandth part of a microhenry.
From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)
Therefore we say that a coil has one henry of inductance when an electron stream 85which is increasing one ampere’s worth each second stirs up in the coil a conscientious objection of one volt.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
The Zu-Vendi alphabet seems, Sir henry says, to be derived, like every other known system of letters, from a Phoenician source, and therefore more remotely still from the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
From Allan Quatermain by Haggard, Henry Rider
In June, the BOE said it expected inflation to be 3.25% in the fourth quarter of this year, while Henry Cook, an economist at MUFG, sees a peak of 3.4% to 3.5%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Queen Victoria was on the throne when Rothamsted Research's founders, Sir John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert, began studying a field near Harpenden to find out how fertilisers and manure affected hay yields.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Henry Kissinger’s misdeeds in Cambodia couldn’t keep the College of William and Mary from appointing him chancellor.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
His nimble, stylish solo on Henry Mancini’s 1963 theme to the police-caper comedy “The Pink Panther” became cultural shorthand for an era of sly jazz panache.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
“I didn’t want to think about it anymore,” said Henry.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
It would have a resistance at ordinary temperatures of 6,600 ohms, and an inductance of 460 henrys.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose
Its formula is Inductive reactance = L ω wherein L is the inductance in henrys and ω is 2 π n, or twice 3.1416 times the frequency.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster
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