Word: silk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost. - A blue diagonal overcoat, lined with black silk, and made by Mitchell, The finder will receive a reward of ten dollars on leaving it at Leavitt & Peirce's Billiard Room...
Lost. - A blue diagonal overcoat, lined with black silk, and made by Mitchell, The finder will receive a reward of ten dollars on leaving it at Leavitt & Peirce's Billiard Room...
Lost. - A blue diagonal overcoat, lined with black silk, and made by Mitchell, The finder will receive a reward of ten dollars on leaving it at Leavitt & Peirce's Billiard Room...
Lost. - A blue diagonal overcoat, lined with black silk, and made by Mitchell, The finder will receive a reward of ten dollars on leaving it at Leavitt & Peirce's Billiard Room...
...factory in Cambridgeport for the purpose of building electrical dynamos, lamps, and all the other necessities for electric lighting, after models which he had himself invented. Many improvements over the old dynamos and lamps have been made, especially in the lamps, the filaments of which are made of a silk thread, instead of the bamboo strips and other substances used by other inventors, the great advantages of which seem to be that the silk is perfectly pliable after being carbonized, that the lamps thus constructed require less power to produce lights than heretofore, and lastly, that these filaments...