Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...inches in aperture; the Royal Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam has recently acquired a thirty- one inch photographic refractor; and the Pulkowa Observatory has a thirty inch lens, made by the late Alvan Clark of Cambridge. Greenwich and Washington have telescopes with apertures of twenty-six-inches. The largest instrument in the possession of the Harvard Observatory is the twenty four inch Bruce photographic telescope, mounted at Arequipa...
...annual mid-year trial of candidates for the Pierian Sodality will be held in Holden Chapel on Monday evening, February 4 at 7 o'clock. Every one in the University who plays an orchestral instrument, is requested to come out for this trial. Those who wish to try and cannot come at this time, should send their names to F. F. Collier, 12 Oxford Street...
...telescopes used in carrying on this work are operated in small sheds placed in different parts of the grounds, but each is controlled by a central electrical station. By the use of a switch board one man can operate from this station as many of the instruments as he may desire. In order that the motion of the earth may not effect the relative position of the photographic telescope and the object, the instrument is moved on an axis parallel to the earth and regulated by clock work in such a way that the distance the earth moves...
There are two other stationary instruments. Over the end of one a prism is placed, which breaks up the light of the stars so that by the study of the rays the composition and character of any one star may be accurately determined. The second instrument is regulated by two ordinary alarm clocks, which open and close the shutter at any time the operator may wish. Every night this telescope is pointed directly at the north star, and after an exposure of twelve hours a semi-circle is thus traced on the plate. By this device an impression...
...agrees with Professor James in rejecting the old belief that consciousness is but a function of the brain and that, therefore, without a material brain consciousness is impossible. He also believes in the newer thought that the mechanism of the brain does not directly produce conciousness, but is the instrument through which an infinite consciousness influences men's personalities and finds expression in their lives...