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Word: flashlight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lions. One night after the latter had obtained several fine specimens, a stockade was built and a dead antelope placed nearby as a decoy. On this carcass Coolidge arranged a camera with a string attached to the shutter and then waited inside the stockade. He had taken two splendid flashlight pictures of lionesses and was rearranging the camera when a large lion charged him. He ran and dove through the door of the enclosure. Next morning the lion's tracks were discovered only four feet from the entrance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LION-HUNTING EXPERIENCES | 1/12/1911 | See Source »

...which the lecturers traveled, the different tribes of natives, and specimens of wild animals. Coolidge obtained several photographs of beasts of prey at night with a special camera which he invented for the purpose. He put a string across the animal's path and when it was touched a flashlight was set off which at the same time released the shutter on a camera, placed in an advantageous position. In this way pictures were obtained which it would have been impossible to get in the ordinary manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION LECTURE ON AFRICA | 1/11/1911 | See Source »

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