Word: pasteboard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this point Professor Trowbridge had several pictures thrown on the screen. The first was of several coins which had been in his pocket-book which had been put in a wooden box that had been surrounded by a pasteboard box. The next picture was of a turkey's wing which showed the bones and a bullet which had been shot into it. The third picture was again of a turkey's wing with three shots in it, and a ring taken by a to and fro current which is the professor's way of finding out the distance...
Professor Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory obtained on Wednesday afternoon a distinct impression upon a photographic plate by means of the Professor Rontgen cathode rays acting through wood and pasteboard. The impression has been fixed and is capable of giving a print upon ordinary blue print or other sensitive paper...
...inch deep. Across the glass slips to hold them in place was put a narrow bar of pine wood five-sixteenths of an inch thick. The wooden cover, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, was then pushed into place. The wooden box thus prepared was placed within a covered pasteboard box, the walls of which were about one thirty-second of an inch thick. The pasteboard box, with its contents, was placed one or two inches from the brightly fiorescent part of an ordinary spherical Crookes tube, and the action was maintained with this arrangement about two minutes, when...