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...which might have happened to me if I had appeared in this abomination on the streets of Eccles. There, anything abnormal was usually greeted with a shower of brickbats, and the curved and pointed toes of the wooden clogs were studded with rows of brass nails with which to "purr" or kick the shins of the nonconformist. Even a neat patch was regarded with suspicion, its purpose being adequately covered by the cast-off coat of an older and bigger brother...
...found a new differential analyzer even more formidable than its name-a maze of delicate mechanisms united in a 28-ft. monster weighing three tons (see cut). They saw innumerable gears mesh silently, shafting turn on jeweled bearings, operators carefully adjust hand controls; they heard five small motors tranquilly purr. On the "answer table" they saw a metal arm bearing a stylus make a curved graph on white paper...
...purr magnified on this scale, Dr. Free asserted, would be heard for 3,000 miles around. But the loudspeaker to produce such a volume of sound does not exist. Western Electric's new loud-speaker-used for the first time at last summer's America's Cup yacht races (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante}-multiplies the power of the human voice a millionfold, delivers thunderclap announcements with the force of 50-lb. hammer blows, makes itself heard for miles & miles in still air. Even so all but a few of the most intelligible speech frequencies must...
...travel-all functioning, with operators in period costumes. All vehicles except the ships, among them Fulton's steamboat and the Baltimore Clipper, are originals. Baltimore & Ohio R. R.'s ancient Tom Thumb locomotive, a boiler on wheels, leads the way for the Royal Scot. Straight-eight automobiles purr behind the horseless carriages...
...gauge which looks like a rifle sight on the profile of Blue Bird's is-ft. bonnet, he gathered speed going south along the beach. Nearing the grandstand at the start of the mile, the sound of Bine Bird's motor was first a low undertone to the warm purr of the surf, then a thundering roar, then a mighty shout of speed and wind as the car blurred past...