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... paper the objects they had seen . The son could soon write down forty objects . This training was kept up till an astounding ability was acquired . On the occasion of one performance the son gave the titles of more than a dozen books in ...
... paper the objects they had seen . The son could soon write down forty objects . This training was kept up till an astounding ability was acquired . On the occasion of one performance the son gave the titles of more than a dozen books in ...
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... paper around a metal drum . The smoked paper is prepared by stretching ordinary glazed paper around the drum and holding a smoky gas or benzine flame under it . A soft black surface is thus obtained , in which the point of the marker ...
... paper around a metal drum . The smoked paper is prepared by stretching ordinary glazed paper around the drum and holding a smoky gas or benzine flame under it . A soft black surface is thus obtained , in which the point of the marker ...
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... paper . made , it jumps through the paper scattering the smoke and making a white dot . In Fig . 3 the metallic point is the time - marker itself . Every time we move the finger a dot is made on the time - line . Fig . 4 shows the time ...
... paper . made , it jumps through the paper scattering the smoke and making a white dot . In Fig . 3 the metallic point is the time - marker itself . Every time we move the finger a dot is made on the time - line . Fig . 4 shows the time ...
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... paper and two white dots are made . Do they occur at the same moment ? A specimen record . by a famous organist is shown in Fig . 11 . Thus the will to move both hands at the same time results in moving the two at different times . A ...
... paper and two white dots are made . Do they occur at the same moment ? A specimen record . by a famous organist is shown in Fig . 11 . Thus the will to move both hands at the same time results in moving the two at different times . A ...
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... paper E covered with soot ( smoked while on a drum and then removed ) is placed on it . It is connected with a wire ... paper at each vibration of the fork . A person is asked to write letters , words and sentences on the smoked paper ...
... paper E covered with soot ( smoked while on a drum and then removed ) is placed on it . It is connected with a wire ... paper at each vibration of the fork . A person is asked to write letters , words and sentences on the smoked paper ...
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Page 181 - ... probably never in all their lives received one genuine colour-sensation. The modern religionists of the school of Overbeck are just like people who eat slate-pencil and chalk, and assure everybody that they are nicer and purer than strawberries and plums.
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