Word: cone
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Albert Elmer Hancock S. B., A. M.; appointing as proctors for one year from September 1, Pitts Duffield, A. B., John Corbin A. M., Edmund Rubert Otto von Mach A. B., Charles Edward Seaman A. B., John Hall Jones, Walter Bradford Cannon, Harry Augustus Bigelow, Ralph Waldo Cone A. B., Charles Sumner Griffin A. B., William Lloyd Garrison Jr.; appointing Harry White A. M., proctor of Divinity Hall for one year from September...
This new form of ray lamp is that of a cone, and its characteristic difference from the ordinary Crooke's tube is that the sides or walls of the lamp are made of sheet aluminum 1/10 in. thickness; the base of the lamp is made of solid glass, practically a plug fitted into the base of the aluminum cone with paster-of-Paris, and made air tight. A metallic ring passes around the base of the cone and holds the sides of the cone firmly to the glass bottom. Through a point a little to the side of the centre...
...envelope plays a significant part in the generation of Rontgen rays. This theory, which was advanced by Dr. Rontgen himself, has been strongly supported by Poincare and provisionally accepted by other authorities. Yet Mr. Woodward has obtained excellent shadowgraphs from the radiations passing through the sides of the aluminum cone of his lamp. This supports another theory that has been offered, to the effect that Rontgen and cathode rays are independently generated in a vacuum tube, but that the former alone have the power of traversing the glass envelope. The fact that clearly defined radiographs of the hand were taken...
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...collections. On the left as one enters is a series of large relieves representing different scenes in the life of Assurnazirpal, king of Assyria from 883-859 B. C. In the first the king is seated by the sacred tree, holding aloft in adoration of the gods, the sacred cone. He next appears in a hunting scene. As a priest performing the rites of sacrifice, he is represented with wings showing the tendency of the Assyrians to associate their kings deities. On other tablets his warlike nature is expressed...