Liquid Hydrogen

Abstract

MR. HAMPSON seems insatiable of contradictions. He has produced a vast quantity of irrelevancies with which I have no concern. But I have denied the accusations he brings against me, and every single statement of his that is relevant. Yet he still complains that I do not deny enough. It is absolutely false to say that I appropriated or profited by any plan, idea, or statement of Mr. Hampson's, either directly or indirectly. I was never informed of his visit, far less of any of the plans he brought to the Royal Institution, nor would anything have induced me to look at them. I have been long enough in this “temple of science” not to know what that might involve. Mr. Hampson got at my assistant behind my back, and persuaded him to look at the plans. I infer from the public correspondence, that he saw that they would not work, and he told Mr. Hampson why they were unworkable.