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...very recently, photographs could only be taken by violet rays of the spectrum. Now, however, the method has been extended so as to include the yellow and red rays, known as the all-day exposure method. Here the lecturer showed a photograph taken by Mr. Burbank, '89, of two sodium lines. It is the first one of the kind that has ever been produced. America has done more in the last fifty years to bring photography to perfection than any other country, although much has been accomplished by recent scientific investigation in England and France. The old spectra of stars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Spectrum Analysis." | 3/17/1888 | See Source »

Green was considerably rattled the other day, when he called chloride of sodium "sore-eyed caladium." Green must have the "pink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/17/1883 | See Source »

...rumored that the subject of the next Senior Forensic will be : " "Did the salt-pillar into which Lot's wife was turned contain sodium or nitric oxide?" References in the Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

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