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...account of the illness of Professor Peirce there will be only eight lectures in Physics A. Commencing next Thursday Professor Trowbridge will deliver four. The first will be on Sound with especial attention to the telephone and the phonograph. The second will be on Photography; the third on Spectrum Analysis, and the fourth on the Relation of Light, Heat, and Electricity. The last four lectures will be given by Professor Hall. The first will be Thursday April 17, on Prime Movers. The second will be on Steam Engines; the third on Dynamos, and the fourth on the Electric Railway...
...distributes his strength over the stroke in the most telling way. This economical stroke would have a corresponding curve, and if we all knew the proper curve to row, we might all be "skillful" oarsmen. * * * It affords a means of preserving a given type, for like the phonograph, its impressions can be preserved for use in the distant future...
...Those are note-takers," he replied, "a modified form of a phonograph. You see everything I say is taken down by the instrument, provided it is kept in motion. The necessity of keeping the crank revolving is what insures me an audience which remains awake," and the professor smiled grimly. "A few of the wealthier students, however, own note-takers which are run by a small electric motor, and these luxurious individuals send their instruments by some friend, and save themselves the trouble of coming." - Cornell...
...crowd at Princeton on Saturday were returning from the ball-grounds, they were greeted with the Princeton cheer in intensified tones proceeding from a large phonograph in the scientific building, and later in the day a drum helped the students make things lively in celebrating their victory over Yale.- News...
...wrote, "Did S. J. Tilden, 1883, receive a condition in Sophomore Themes?" A noise of confused rumbling and rattling came from the interior of the machine. Then a bell sounded, and the phonograph began, "He -" But here, alas, I awoke...