New-York tribune., 1872-10-16
pRorEsSoR 1YADALL AT BOSTON
LECTURE AT TIE LOWELL INSTITUTE" LIGHT
AND uEAT.p

LECTURE AT TIE LOWELL INSTITUTE LIGHT
AND HEAT"
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
Boston, Oct. 15.-Prof. TyndaIl made his
debut before an American audience tins evening" ia the
great dugy ugly hall OF the Lowell Institute, on wash
iugton-s 1t packed with people, aud bis reception
wascxceediugy warm and hearty. The tickets to Tie
lectures which will continue for six alternate nights
were given out yesterday morning, and twenty minutes
suced 70 dispose Of them all although but one ticket
was allowed to each person The lectures are free,
and are the gift 10 the public Of tins splendid lnSt-
tuition, which does in another way something OF
what the Cooper Institute does for New YORK; The tont
seat at these lectures Is al"dy reserved l9t & l' ~ 3
friends, and among thOse VINO aI.enueu 5t rl. ,,5f
were Robert c. Winthrop Josiah Quincy, Pr'l. OIiy VI
Harvard College, Dr. A. T. Peabody, IlOI' JONI Ii9Ac'
tho Rey. Dr. Ncae, ana many oluet u'tI.T a. "a Nd
pie. Though exceedingly plain, inc 4liI Is ; pi,
Tor the purpose OF popular lecturer f%IJl' % iS.f
apparatus WAS chiefly upon LIEe t3ul9' .n @l.'.'
a. three Sues OF sqlaIe, III Io-,, 1HS norroV5
bridge was built cut from the 'front.' Oh the peolu W. ~
the heads Of his audience and on this was placer tAG
auxiliary instruments with when the Professor pIOceu
Lis most brilliant ELECTS III anayzg ray Oi iD po m
d canvass at the back OF the platform. 10 was as
prompt a. his audience. AZ 7:3O he emerged rom nc
uoslod way OF the circumstances Of his coming tO
America. In person ProI. Iyhu"I Is. Is I'm I'm
uemuu Of medium hight aud raJler t"iIv
in build. His features arc slight and i ~
manner bctokens the accomplished ana genal t1n'ie nue.
nau He was followed iy ms Two assl'ldule, NHv I mt
kou busy throughout the evening IN preparing iOI Ds
cx1rIments With tuat happy faculty OF speech "hch
s s most charming trait, he settled down lihmeitcy
into the GOOD opinion ot his hearers, who cheefcd Al so
NJ rfp q maj he intmated no once he felt quite 40 DOme
Ic told how, many years ago, he was Des0usuC Wy
Mr. Lowell 10 como TO America, ana how lasV year
the summons came with such force from many
al. -tisled that he could not longer IcIeSe ~
So h ne he was before Boston audience lie sp91c OF
his Indebtedness to l.. l.. NOunaus ana ffOl Iiehiy5
ana III u me ice was rary broken he set MS assistants
10 work and while they were preparing tne patteres @
and wires aud electrical lamps and prisns he gave ny
he discourse tie pursuit or science lof tho Stu
sake yludicatug the investigator ana CLAIMING tVt l
au nimess labOrs an importance eludiy ds
great as the practical work or the NorOy lie shOWeU
there could be 10 industrial England OF lndustilal
America today wi hOut such labOrs Next he spoke OF
the inheritance of TIE work of the scieutle demonsato
and then turned hs instruments. Ills lectures, ne
said were be confined to the eNposOn OF te laws OF
heat and t. By the aid OF "a platinum wire ana pat
trv e explained the electrical light which he uses IN All
his txueruens. Bidding the glare be gone, ne caused
a afuul wire stretched tho table IN front or
li and no thicker than hOIse-har, to glow WIN an
intense brightness aud then melt ~ electricity WlcA
sufeed ~ demonstrate The principles Of eecJucMac
linen sub-uuuug his lamp Tor the circle VI gas jets
ol the hall, no proceeded, by series OF Iapld
aud beautiful experiments, TO analyzo a ray OF
ngut Through "a tiny aperture IN DIT 9I I'm
fml lie took the single ray ana showed the
process OF combustion ana tine laws Of reractlOn Ihcn
with prism he resolved cue ray into ITS component rag
meur- aud aucrward gave tue syuthess OF ISh1 Dy
those wonderfully brilliant aud maIYelOusly simple
methods wicu nave given him Worldwide lelutiuOl
bis the are re-t irug popular scientific deuOliiraiof
I. f.tu ,.i aUdieucs Cheegcd him % the echo, ana
went uN.s ~ LLlb up new auJCCLNes Win "A-eu ~
praise u..I.
ProI IuJan will contnle his lectures here on
fir evening" OF Thursday and Saturday OF TINS week.
aAd Monday, Tuesday, aud Friday Ot next week