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...things mortal man cannot escape. One is death and the other is being misquoted. The first happens but once, and I have been fortunate in not having the second happen often; but an extempore after-dinner speech at a private dinner is liable to filter out disfigured. Some of the things I am reported to have said at New Haven I did not say; others have been given a false emphasis; and the main point seems to have been missed altogether in the press...
...scale tips, the wavelength no longer matches (having traveled different distances), and the shadow-bands reflect weight variations caused by gravity within small fractions of a second. To eliminate error, the ray used was a green one, of uniform wavelength, passed from a mercury lamp through an interferometer (light-filter...
Reports began to filter in of desertions from Abd-el-Krim to the French. Several chieftains who had gone over to the Riffian leader were alleged to have offered to return, help fight the Riffians, if only the French would pardon them, grant them arms and munitions. At the same time, it was reported that the Riffians were subjecting unwilling warriors to barbaric cruelties, "such as cutting off their arms and legs in the presence of women...
...Mediterranean. The Krupp works at Essen had built him a steel cylinder guaranteed to resist sea-pressure at 15,000 ft., equipped with magnifying submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable for lowering them all. Lest this cable break or tangle, an electric switch in the "bell" would disengage its prodigiously weighty lower shell, allowing the upper half and its occupants...
...friends of his, Messieurs J. Risler and P. Mondain, had a preventative and a cure for radiodermitis. Noting that the long-waved infra-red heat rays are antagonistic to shorter-waved constituents of the Xray, such as the potent ultra-violet*Risler and Mondain had contrived a "ray filter" of plastic material, penetrable only by the infra-red and yellow rays. The long-waved rays thus filtered out were then applied to living tissues that had been exposed to the destructive influence of a complete Xray. The tissue showed no ill effects. Cases of radiodermitis, next treated, were declared "completely...