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...cubes and weigh only 30 lbs. apiece. Each is crammed with 140,000 electronic components-including 122,000 transistors-40 thermostats, three tiny ovens, bottled radioactive gases, one pocket-sized chromatograph (used to identify the chemical component of the substance under study) and a small xenon lamp that can simulate sunshine. Costing $16.9 million each, the labs can perform three different life-detection experiments without any human help...
...write like that any more. Not even Burke did in his later years (he died in 1945), when he had learned sophistication and turned out unmemorable travel books and verse. Too bad. For the charm of Limehouse Nights out lasts fashion - egregious and outrageous as a Tiffany lamp. ·A.T. Baker
...Philips Lamp...
...what "white lightning" really tastes like, opinions differ. Irvin S. Cobb compared a swig to swallowing a lighted kerosene lamp. A North Carolina moonshiner says simply: "Hits a blamed ugly drink." And then there is Colonel Leland DeVore, whose throat involuntarily contracts whenever he thinks of moonshine: "I hear, as if from far away, the gagging whisper of a long-lost friend whose favorite saying was 'Vile stuff-I wish I had a barrel...
...under "Metropolis Mailbag" in Superman comics: the same color seeming lighter or darker according to its background, a green, black and orange flag that makes you see red, white and blue when you look away. A prism breaks white light into the color spectrum, and a sodium vapor lamp turns everyone's skin yellow. There are lots of fun knobs to turn and fun buttons to push, and color TV excerpts from ZOOM. But in failing to approach the really challenging question of why color works the way it does, the Museum frustrates the viewer's curiosity. We are just...