Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fancies was subject to waking visions that almost amounted to seizures. In the grown youth, an intense, ascetic student of electro-dynamics whose extravagant notions of planet power had given place to practical work on telephones, this visionary weakness became translated into an extraordinary ability to visualize, in minutest detail and exact dimensions, new mechanical devices sprung from an inventive brain...
...while walking in a park and quoting Goethe to a friend that Nikola Tesla "saw" the induction motor that first brought him fame. He was able to draw it with a stick on the sandy path in the exact detail with which he presented it, six years later, to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
...days. The long negative is developed and a positive film made. When the reel is projected on a screen the cancer cells, magnified, are seen spreading, moving, creeping, quite like budding flowers seen in slow motion pictures. The process is expected to reveal to cancer searchers many an unknown detail of the disease...
Authors Beard, tracing the rise of American civilization, produce no hotchpotch of trends and directions. With delicate care they measure the currents which have furnished the nation's momentum. Concerned most largely with political events they analyze these in detail, showing from what sources they sprang, to what results they led. Their book is crammed with small, juicy facts, which like the raisins on a pudding, give it taste...
...stipulation of the contest being that if the company submitting the winning design also should be given the job of building the ship, it could not collect the prize-money. Inasmuch as the dirigible will cost in the neighborhood of $4,500,000, the $50,000 becomes a small detail and the Goodyear company will, in all probability, go ahead with the construction job which will take some three years for completion...