Word: screened
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...five Assyrian Readings in the Fogg Museum yesterday afternoon on Assyrian Prayers. After the reading proper, he made an appeal for the erection of a building for the Department of Semetic Languages and History. Plans for the proposed building drawn by R. C. Sturgis, Boston, were shown upon the screen. The Department has been promised $25,000 provided it can obtain $25,000 more. Professor Lyon said that at least $100,000 would be necessary to provide such a building...
...photograph of the shade. As glass absorbs the rays a lens would be of no use and would prevent the taking of a photograph. Thus the common process of photographing is exactly reversed with the cathode rays. This was illustrated by a picture thrown on the screen where a camera was shown with the larger end towards the cathode and the lens pointed away uselessly...
...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...
...rules of the American Association will govern the match. Five men constitute a team, each man to shoot at 30 birds in strings of 5. There will be three traps arranged 5 yards apart in the are of a circle and concealed by a screen. The traps will be unknown; that is, the bird may fly from any one of them...
...room, is a door leading to the library. This room is provided with iron racks and adjustable shelves. The windows looking out into the hall are made of fire-proof glass. The material is a novelty. The metal while in the molten state has been poured over a wire screen, so that if a fire should break out the flames could not crack the glass...