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...personal effects. They are given rough underwear, "hickory" shirt, brogan shoes, socks, gray coat and pants (stripes are no longer used). Their cells, 7 ft. x 3 ft., 3 in. x 6 ft., 7 in., get no sunlight and contain only a cot, iron slop bucket, tin cup, electric bulb. Letter paper, books and newspapers can be obtained at the proper times...
...shape, size and attachments (so far undescribed) all concentrate the short waves from the transmitting bulb in a straight, narrow beam, much like the beam from a search light...
...word the police were suspected with good reason of having subjected the 22-year old bulb tester to a scandalous third degree. She, Miss Irene Savage, a cheerful, comely girl, was recently arrested and acquitted of the charge of "indecent conduct" in Hyde Park with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 58, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to.David Lloyd George. In dismissing the case the judge severely rebuked the constables concerned and fined them jointly ?10 ($48). The astounding and scandalous aftermath came a fortnight later when Miss Savage was called upon at her place of work by Inspector Clark and Policewoman Wilde...
...kilowatt hour equals 1,000 watt hours. For example, an ordinary 50 watt lamp bulb consumes one kilowatt hour of electric energy for every 20 hours of burning...
...explain his further experiments with cathode rays. Dr. Coolidge, assistant director of the General Electric Co.'s research laboratories, had just received the Institute's Edison Medal for his "contributions to the incandescent electric lighting and x-ray arts" by his development of ductile tungsten for bulb filaments and x-ray targets. At the same ceremony John Joseph Carty of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had received the John Fritz Medal for his "development of research in the telephone...