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Page 14
... placed on the line whenever I move my finger , as is illustrated in Fig . 4 , I can tell just how much time elapsed between any two movements by counting the waves and the fraction of a wave . Thus the two dots are distant by seven ...
... placed on the line whenever I move my finger , as is illustrated in Fig . 4 , I can tell just how much time elapsed between any two movements by counting the waves and the fraction of a wave . Thus the two dots are distant by seven ...
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... placed on the button of a special tele- graph key , so arranged that the slightest movement of the finger breaks an electric circuit . Fig . 5 shows the finger ready to make a record when it moves down- ward ; the electric circuit ...
... placed on the button of a special tele- graph key , so arranged that the slightest movement of the finger breaks an electric circuit . Fig . 5 shows the finger ready to make a record when it moves down- ward ; the electric circuit ...
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... placed on it . It is connected with a wire Cfrom the spark coil . The other wire from the coil leads to the pen D in a metal holder covered with rubber . A vibrating elec- tric fork ( Fig . 3 ) is placed in the primary circuit of the ...
... placed on it . It is connected with a wire Cfrom the spark coil . The other wire from the coil leads to the pen D in a metal holder covered with rubber . A vibrating elec- tric fork ( Fig . 3 ) is placed in the primary circuit of the ...
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... placed in the hole of the smaller , or movable , slide , and the thumb is placed in the hole or against the hook of the lower , or adjustable , slide. FIG . 16. - In the Reaction - room . FIG . 17. - Reaction - key . 28 Thinking ...
... placed in the hole of the smaller , or movable , slide , and the thumb is placed in the hole or against the hook of the lower , or adjustable , slide. FIG . 16. - In the Reaction - room . FIG . 17. - Reaction - key . 28 Thinking ...
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... placed in any convenient position , and the thumb and finger are held apart . The wires lead to a spark coil in a distant record- ing room . A double key is arranged in the recording - room so that when it is pressed a sound is sent ...
... placed in any convenient position , and the thumb and finger are held apart . The wires lead to a spark coil in a distant record- ing room . A double key is arranged in the recording - room so that when it is pressed a sound is sent ...
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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.
Page 5 - I have noticed in one of my formicaria a subterranean cemetery, where I have seen some ants burying their dead by placing earth above them. One ant was evidently much affected, and tried to exhume the bodies, but the united exertions of the yellow sextons were more than sufficient to neutralise the effort of the disconsolate mourner.