Word: disks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which constitute a nerve and splice them into a highly sensitive telegraph set. Whenever such nerves carry messages to (or from) the brain by means of very weak electrical impulses, amplifying tubes in Professor Adrian's device magnify those impulses until he can record them on a phonograph disk or send them sounding from a loud speaker. Magnified, they sound like barks. Professor Adrian understands the noises. A slow, long continued series of barks, for example, may indicate the pain of a burn or ulcer...
...telescope position. The old reason is California Institute of Technology's intention of building a 200- in. telescope in California, near Mount Wilson's 100-incher. Two factors delay Caltech: 1) Dr. Elihu Thomson of General Electric does not yet see his way toward making the necessary fused quartz disk which will be nearly as wide as a two-story building is high; nor has any other mirror-builder come forward with a sound plan for building the vast platter; 2) Caltech must wait until the securities which it owns appreciate in income and market value before spending large sums...
...turned black. Another glance at the sinking sun, and while I was looking, the bright orange orb turned to green. Then no matter where or how long I looked in other directions, whether I shut my eyes or opened them, I saw nothing but a bright green disk. Of the sails, the boat, the compass or the water I saw nothing...
Artiglio II seaman, "in some mud the divers sent up from the Egypt's galley- cursed smelly mud!" Other "finds" washed by nose-holding sailors from the pantry mud: ¶ Brass disk stamped "P. & O." (the Egypt was a Peninsular & Orient liner). ¶ Rusty tube of a onetime shaving stick. ¶ Portion of an English Bible. "The rest of this Bible," conjectured the diver who sent the mud up, "had been gnawed away, probably by rats before the Egypt sank." Soon primed last week with wine, spaghetti and fresh bombs, Artiglio II resumed from Brest her quest...
...most important part of the meeting was the reading of the papers, of which there were perhaps there or four outstanding ones. J. W. Fecker made a report on the work done to date on the 70 inch disk cast by the Bureau of Standards in Washington. This has been an object of interest to all astronomers since 1921 when work was first started. After five failures, they have at last succeeded in making a start which seems likely to be successful...