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At night, the dome and portico of St. Peter's and the obelisk in St. Peter's Square, which Caligula brought from Egypt, were illuminated for the first time since 1870, when the Papacy was deprived of its temporal power. The illumination was done not with electricity but...
Lord Balfour spoke in his best Eton and Cambridge manner, dwelt upon the significance of the event in which all were participating and which had brought people from all the earth's cubbyholes. He touched briefly on the history of the surrounding sights and asseverated: "A new epoch has begun...
People laugh at Sir Francis Bacon nowadays because he said: "I take all learning to be my province." Yet, if anyone has in his library the series of "Outlines" published nowadays-The Outline of History, The Outline of Science, The Outline of Literature, The Outline of Art* he has set...
Progress in scientific discoveries is doubtless useful and salutary, but it is also fearfully unromantic. This week at Menlo Park, which is Mr. Edison's euphemistic name for his principal factory, the snuffing out of the candle as a source of illumination is to be celebrated by a bloze of...
This afternoon at-4.30 o'clock, Professor H. E. Clifford, Gordon Mckay Professor of Electrical Engineering, will give a lecture on "Eletricity in Illumination" in the lecture hall, Room 110, Pierce Hall, Illustrating his speech with slides from the San Fransico and Rio de Janeiro expositions. The lecture will be...