Word: metallism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...underground wires, and when contact is made with the overhead wire by a person standing on the ground the circuit is joined and a shock is received. Rubber overshoes or gloves are seldom sufficient protection. Water is a very great conductor of electricity, and on a rainy day metal objects in the vicinity of heavily charged wires have often become charged themselves. This was well illustrated a year or two ago, when the iron railing around the grave yard at the corner of North avenue and Garden street became charged with electricity, so that every one who touched it received...
...sense of beauty, which beckon the imagination-it is precisely those which are untranslatable, nay, which are so in exact proportion as they are masterly. This is especially true of the great poets, the glow of whose genius fuses the word and the idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this instantly with any translation of Shakespeare even into German, the language which has the nearest affinities of blood with our own. A translation can enable us to form a just enough estimate of an author's general power of mind, of a poet...
...advantages to our boys are steadily growing. In spite of the general business depression, places are readily found for those who have made suitable proficiency in this branch of their studies. In addition to the instruction heretofore given in drawing, in pattern making, in foundry work, in metal work and in theoretical and applied electrics, arrangements are being made to add instruction in blacksmithing, in plumbing and in steam fitting...
...gold medal, struck from the Cycling Association die, as first prize, with similar medals in silver, bronze, and white metal, for second, third, and fourth prizes, will be offered in order to bring out a large field of starters. A cup will be given for the best time made over the course, in order to give the fastest riders an object; for, since the main purpose of the race is to bring out and encourage new riders, the committee will give very liberal handicaps...
...second great improvement of his method is that, since the metal is heated uniformly and continuously, it can be forged into shape by machines with perfect accuracy. It is no longer necessary that a man should pound only where the heat remains in the metal, now by one turn of a machine, the metal is twisted into the desired shape, and the finished product has been produced...