Word: solid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This new form of ray lamp is that of a cone, and its characteristic difference from the ordinary Crooke's tube is that the sides or walls of the lamp are made of sheet aluminum 1/10 in. thickness; the base of the lamp is made of solid glass, practically a plug fitted into the base of the aluminum cone with paster-of-Paris, and made air tight. A metallic ring passes around the base of the cone and holds the sides of the cone firmly to the glass bottom. Through a point a little to the side of the centre...
Professor A. W. Wright and Mr. H. A. Bumstead have made applications of the principles of solid-photography, recently discovered by Professor Rontgen, of Wurgburgh, with decided success. Experiments with cathode rays have been made upon various small animals and different opaque substances, and very definite negatives have been obtained. These investigations will be continued...
...Modern European History, one in the Constitutional and Political History of the United States, one in American History down to 1783, and a half course in Constitutional Government; History of the Fine Arts, two full courses; Mathematics, four half-courses, one each in Algebra, Analytic Geometry, Trigonometry, and Solid Geometry; Physics, two consecutive courses; Chemistry, one course in descriptive Chemistry; Botany and Zoology, one half course in each; Geology, one elementary course and two kindred half courses, one in Physical Geography and the other in Meteorology. The President then shows that if the courses in this list are summed...
...thickness of the wooden shield was only about one-eighth of an inch, but it is very difficult to distinguish on the plate the part that was covered by the extra thickness. It is evident that an effect would have been produced through more than one inch of solid wood...
There is more solid comfort and good looks to the square inch in the Crawford Shoe than in any other shoe made...