Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moonbeams entered the festivities that night. A mirror on the 64th floor and a photoelectric cell were employed to carry Mr. Doherty's voice by moonbeam power to a microphone while he spoke over a nationwide radio hookup, greeting the members of Doherty's Men's Fraternity (employes). More moonbeams were used to close a switch turning on the building's floodlights...
...before the scheduled death of Prisoner Jones, Governor Andy Kent begins to feel himself cracking up. "If only the victim had been a less decent sort. If only he had cursed?or sworn? or fought. . . . But how can you dig a grave for such a man?you enter his cell at midnight, to make sure the officers who keep him from suicide are not sleeping?-you see him sobbing all over, like a child." When Governor Kent passes the open grave, sees the quicklime piled beside it, his conscience rises with his gorge; rather than carry...
...interested in acoustics and music for a long time, and he has done important work in the field of talking moving pictures, as well as in the co-ordination of telephone systems with power transmission lines. He is experienced in the production of seemingly astounding effects with the photoelectric cell. In his use of vacuum tubes, he will give a working demonstration of one of the most significant of the new tools that have come with the "electrical age." The address will give a clear indication of the certain possibilities which reside within the newest types of vacuum tubes...
Called the "semagraph," Inventor Green's device is based upon use of the photo-electric cell. The special typewriter used in preparing copy prints a coded combination of dots under each character. Each group of dots interrupts a tiny beam of light in the semagraph, causing the proper type letter mold to fall into place...
...Emancipation (Jan. 1, 1863). He rambled on that he had been married five times, once cooked coffee for General Grant, had 49 grandchildren. At mention of the Civil War he mumbled about "lots of shooting" and "long roads." He broke into tears as he was led away to a cell...