Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attorney-General. William DeWitt Mitchell, as a Minnesota boy, yearned to be an electrical engineer. Fishing in the Mississippi, he carried screws, coils, wire and switches in his jeans as well as worms and tackle. His father was by way of becoming a distinguished justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court when the callow son said he had no use for law because he "never knew a lawyer who amounted to very much." He played the mandolin and mumble-dy-peg, went to Lawrenceville. played lacrosse, went to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale...
...foot man. The most remarkable thing about this automaton, is his ability to answer any question within reason. Captain Richards explained that each question had a key number, such as 74, the sound waves of the seven and four combined making a certain rate of vibration on a wire inside the man, which vibrations cause him to give the correct answer...
...lasted since 1922. To win first place Laund Loyalty had to be judged best collie, best working dog, best brace (teamed with Bellhaven Stronghold II) and best team (with Bellhaven Stronghold II, Bellhaven Brilliancy and Laund Lindbergh of Bellhaven). Second-best-dog was Eden Aristocrat of Wildoaks, a wire-haired fox terrier owned by Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bondy, of Golden-bridge, N. Y. Third was Herewithem J. P., a pointer, owned by Robert F. Maloney of Pittsburgh; fourth, King Pippin of Greystones, a Pekingese owned by Mrs. C. Hager of Braddock, Pa.; fifth, Champion Reigh Count, a Boston...
First he inspected electrical and magnetic phenomena. Everyone knows, and had known, that they are intimately related. Electricity flowing through a wire coiled around a piece of iron makes that iron magnetic. As a piece of wire passes between the prongs of a horseshoe magnet, an electric current is generated. James Clerk Maxwell showed that the laws of electricity and of magnetism were very much alike. Albert Einstein, in 1905. showed that the forces were different aspects of the same mother force...
...death of Colonel Miller (father of the Miller brothers) the family was, as Zack Miller remarked, "flat as the prairie." Once it had been a great cattle family. In 1880, old Colonel Miller had built the first barb wire fence in the district. But the very necessity for a barb wire fence was an indication that the old free days were passing. In 1893 the district, opened to homesteaders, began to change from a cattle to a farming region. The old Colonel continued to raise nothing but cattle, ran into the Panic of the '90's, crashed...