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Professor Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory obtained on Wednesday afternoon a distinct impression upon a photographic plate by means of the Professor Rontgen cathode rays acting through wood and pasteboard. The impression has been fixed and is capable of giving a print upon ordinary blue print or other sensitive paper...
...inch deep. Across the glass slips to hold them in place was put a narrow bar of pine wood five-sixteenths of an inch thick. The wooden cover, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, was then pushed into place. The wooden box thus prepared was placed within a covered pasteboard box, the walls of which were about one thirty-second of an inch thick. The pasteboard box, with its contents, was placed one or two inches from the brightly fiorescent part of an ordinary spherical Crookes tube, and the action was maintained with this arrangement about two minutes, when...
...prepared with infinite labor by Messrs. Brewer, Garrison, Cogswell, Furness and Paine, and was borne through the entire parade unharmed, on the stalwart shoulders of two sable Africans. The transparency stood seven feet high, and was a correct copy of the chapel, the part representing the building made of pasteboard with the stone work sketched in, and the windows in stained glass,- formed a pretty sight. Below was a large transparency bearing the legends as seen in our cut; and, in addition, on the opposite side, a specimen sumons-card under the old regime, labelled, "The good old chestnut...
...poor representative of the social life of college who cannot remember his menus by the score, at the end of his four year's course. Many of the happiest memories of college life are those brought back to us by the sight of some bit of pasteboard tacked upon the door, the sole reminder of an evening of jollity. Let us, then, continue to honor the old Harvard custom, and hand it down for preservation to those who are to fill our places in the years to come...
Cornell University gets a particularly fine Egyptian mummy from Mr. Pomeroy, American consul general at Cairo. It is something over 3500 years old, and the covering of pasteboard bears a host of figures and inscriptions which are yet plain...