Word: plates
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most cases the larger organizations have secured sufficient control of the market to enable them to raise their prices, thus making consumers suffer for the benefit of stockholders. This has been the result of the organization of the American Sugar Refining Co., the Standard Oil Co., the American Tin Plate Co., and the American Steel and Wire...
...silver baseball won in the eighties. The Beacon Interclass Rowing Cup, which has been competed for from 1864 until recently by class crews is also in this case. As a result of the impossibility of inscribing all the names of the winning crews on the cup, a large silver plate has been obtained as an additional trophy upon which has been placed the winners until 1897. Another trophy placed in this case is a large silver loving cup presented to Harvard in 1896 by the United States Military Academy Athletic Association. Except in minor details, the Trophy Room...
Experiments are being conducted at the Observatory with a view to using the light of the stars as a standard of light in photography. It is the practice among manufacturers of photographic supplies to sensitize plates with lamplight of different degrees of brilliancy, and so the numbers of different makes of plates have no comparative significance. By this method, an unvarying standard of measurement will be obtained. The apparatus at the Observatory is very simple, consisting merely of a contrivance for allowing the light to shine through a small hole to the plate. A secondary and more convenient standard will...