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Coincident with this literary victory came other triumphs inliterature. Thomas B. Macaulay published his "Lays of Ancient Rome"; AlfredTennyson brought out "Locksley Hall" and other poems; Bulwer Lyttonfinished "Zanoni"; the new Shakespeare Society issued some twenty volumesof researches. A new impetus to the making of books and printing was givenby Woolwich's new system of electrotyping, and Charles Young's new deviceof a type-setting machine, first employed on the "Family Herald. " It was the...n, too, that Dr. Julius Robert Meyer, an obscure physician inHeilbronn, published a paper in Liebig's "Annalen, " entitled "The Force ofInorganic Nature. " Not merely the mechanical theory of heat, but the entiredoctrine of the conservation of energy was clearly formulated. It is truethat he was anticipated in a measure by Mohr, and that Helmholtz moreexhaustively demonstrated the truth of the hypothesis of the conservationof energy; but Helmholtz himself hailed Meyer as the rightful claimant ofthe honor of having first clearly formulated the doctrine.
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