Word: wiring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...building will be 120 feet square, giving a clear floor space of 14,400 square, feet. In this will be laid out a regular baseball diamond, exclusive of the outfield. To prevent injury from the rebounding of the balls the sides and ceilings will be hung with strong, elastic wire netting a few feet...
There has been a good deal of talk lately about the poor condition of the back nets on the Jarvis tennis courts and most of the talk has been fault finding. Most of the nets are made of two wire screens placed one over the other. In the first place this does not make a back net high enough to stop the balls and moreover screens are in many places not held together sufficiently tight to keep the balls from going between them. Then again there are several places where the nets are in taters and are of practically...
...Yale athletic games on Saturday, Hickok '95 S., using a wire-handled hammer, made a throw of 112 ft. 9 in., breaking the world's record...
...absolute control of the current is therefore the first essential, and Mr. Burton has found that by making the rheostats not out of wire but out of liquids that more perfect control is obtained. Mr. Burton has also discovered that when several metals are heated by the same currents, the softer are not fused more quickly than the harder; in other words, each metal calls for its appropriate amount of the current. Thus he is enabled to heat iron, copper, and brass all by one current...
...screen on which the returns are to be cast will be hung from the window of Joll's barber shop, where they can be seen from nearly every point in the square. The stereopticon will be piaced in the window of Allnutt's Dining Rooms and if possible a wire will run directly from there to the main office. The returns are furnished by the Western Union Telegraph Co. and will come from New York. A competant operator on this end has been engaged and providing there is no unforeseen accident the returns given out will be as complete...