Word: lense
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Mr. Grace explained to his mystified audience that the invention is known as the "scrambled speech" method of telephony recently developed by the clever, hardworking scientists of Bell Telephone Laboratories. The invention consists of two complicated pieces of apparatus. One, located at the transmitting end, inverts ordinary speech in much...
Contact Glasses have two applications in ophthalmology; first, in the correction of defects of vision and, second, in examinations of the eye wherein they permit the physician to obtain a view of certain portions of the interior of the living eye-ball which could not otherwise be seen. In the...
*In some lizards and other reptiles and in the larva of the lamprey, the pineal gland is on a stalk (like a crayfish's eyes) and is near the top of the head. Here it has a distinguishable retina and lens. French Philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed: "There...
Mason Hammond, head tutor of Lowell House, one of the first two units of the new Harvard House Plan, possesses, in addition to many other most desirable qualities, a spirit of co-operation. He is, furthermore, a good sport. He can make the best of things. He had to the...
Brother Bert had a way with women and, to the utter amazement of the London Graphic editors, turned up with an intimate photo of Queen Victoria at breakfast with two princesses. When the good queen died, Bert photographed, solemnly and well, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. Elmer, too...