Word: cells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action pictures from one room to an adjoining one. The device is somewhat similar to that used in " telephotography," the light reflected from the pictures being cut into innumerable flashes by a " radio eye," a revolving disc composed of many mirrors. The flashes are transmitted into a photo-electric cell, which transforms them into electric waves to be relayed by wire or radio. The receiving apparatus just reverses the process. Mr. Jenkins is now working to secure longer distance in transmission...
...original Charlestown prison was built in 1805", continued Mr. Hendry. "It then comprised cell accommodations for 258 prisoners. Since then three additions have been made and the prison can now house 700 men, although at the present time only 620 are enjoying the State's hospitality. To this prison are sent offenders with sentences ranging from two and one half years to a life term...
...Many improvements", he stated, "have been introduced since the prised, "have been introduced since the prison was erected, the chief ones being better cell ventilation with a great deal more light, twice the space of the old dungeons, better hygienic and sanitary conditions and educational and religious opportunities that were unknown to prisoners of former days. At present there are 12,000 volumes in the prison library available to the prisoners, while religious services of all denominations are held each week...
...micro-vivisection" apparatus so delicate that it enables scientists to dissect living cells has been perfected by Professor C. E. Tharaldsen, of the Department of Zoology, Northwestern University. It consists of a brass lever moved by three finely adjusted screws, manipulating special glass needles which can be brought to bear upon a cell suspended in a drop of nutrient fluid under the lens of the microscope. The needles, the essential part of the machine, are finer than hairs and are formed like a "J" or an "L." The apparatus is superior to similar devices now in use, in that...
...organization in great numbers. The work of the I. W. w. was so contrary to the industrial interests of the west that they concocted a list of about 160 suspected leaders who were at once arrested. Mr. Manning was taken into custody in Seattle and confined in a little cell, absolutely devoid of furniture, although no charge had been brought up against him. After three months he was taken to Chicago, where he remained for twelve more months in the Cook County Jail. Finally the trial was held, but according to Mr. Manning, the conditions that obtained in the court...