Word: coils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above reflection was occasioned by a recent visit to a certain fairly well known local collector of hot dises. This avid one's rather barren music room is strown with parts of a very uniquely designed phonograph connected to each other several times over by wires which dive and coil menacingly and generally rule most of that part of the room which lies below the waist. These respective parts, each after its own fashion, are perpetually glowing and humming. The flendish ruler of this electrical wilderness likes nothing better than to set a visitor on a chair in the middle...
Ordinary lamps emit light from a considerable area, usually a glowing coil of tungsten wire. This makes shadows fuzzy, causes all sorts of trouble in optical instruments. Scientists have long yearned for a convenient, cool "point source" of light. Now, according to Western Union, they...
...policeman Herb Bolliger 1) got a frantic call for the fire department; 2) threw the fire switch-which wouldn't work; 3) raced to the fire station and yanked a bell cord-which broke; 4) whirled to rush back to the police station siren, tripped over a rope coil; 5) switched on the siren; 6) answered the phone again, heard: ". . . fire under control...
...belly, groin and legs were daubed with a coating of lampblack and collodion. Then he was made to lie down on a table and, while voices taunted him with horrible threats, one of the brothers stood ready to give him a mild shock in the crotch with an induction coil charged by two dry-cell batteries...
...Louis University's chapter of Phi Beta Pi, a medical fraternity, had put new pledges through this initiation ritual. Robert Perry, a Navy V12 trainee, was no different from the others. But when his turn came last week, a spark caused by a short circuit in the coil ignited ether fumes from the bottle of collodion, set off a flash of blue flame that enveloped him. Perry leaped up wildly, ran smack into a wall. Several of the brothers grabbed him, rubbed out the flames with their hands, then rushed him to the University's hospital. Next...