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...that you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other time, I would live again to do what I have done already. I have finished ; thank you." Forthwith, amid interruptions, Judge Thayer sentenced Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti to die by "the passage of a current of electricity" through their bodies during the week of July 10, 1927. The court adjourned...
...these things Dr. Knowles would accomplish by means of a relay. A relay is an electromagnetic device in which the opening or closing of a circuit causes the opening or closing of a more powerful circuit. The ordinary relay will control a current only 10,000 times greater than the current that controls it. Dr. Knowles's new relay?a tube type, containing neon or argon gas?would control a current about 100,000,000 times as great as its controlling current. Photoelectrically adjusted, it could be operated by passing shadows...
...second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo-electric cells. Inventor Baird used one mysterious "supersensitive" cell. The varying current is then amplified 5,000,000,000,000,000 times before it is transmitted over wires or through the air by radio. At the receiving end Mr. Baird places another revolving disc. Light playing through...
...potent Mr. PPP, turned suddenly, in the current issue of his Forbes magazine, and railed -against Henry Ford. By quotations from suppositious, always unnamed "authorities," by innuendoes and by skilled selection of facts he presumed to prove hat Henry Ford is decaying as a maker of motor cars. And he illustrated the article with a caricature of Mr. Ford "shown dressed as a gentleman of 1860 driving a typical vehicle of that period." The "Henry Ford" of the picture has a big ear, sidewhiskers, mustache, horseteeth, a head far too large for his high hat, and braided pants. Excerpts from...
...Manhattan, the endowed Neighborhood Playhouse, introducer to the U. S. of The Dybbuk and other famed plays, announced that it would close its doors at the close of the current season, pending material expansion prompted by success...