File:What's this gadget? (LOC).jpg

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NO CAPTION
Photographer	Harris & Ewing, photographer
Title	NO CAPTION
Description	What's this gadget?
Date	between 1923 and 1929 date QS:P571,+1923-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1923-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1929-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium	1 negative : glass
Dimensions	4 x 5 in. or smaller
Accession number	Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-hec-34045 (digital file from original negative) Call Number: LC-H2- B-94
Notes	Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec Part of: Harris & Ewing Collection (Library of Congress)
Source	What's this gadget? (LOC)   This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID hec.34045. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ lietuvių ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−
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Caption[edit]

Plants Thrive Indefinitely Sealed In Airtight Bulbs. Miss Louise Thorne, of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, holding a small living plant hermetically sealed in an old electric light bulb. Although the plant has been shut up in this glass prison for several months, receiving nothing from outside but sunlight and warmth, it is thriving and growing, using the same supply of water and air over and over again. This system of growing plants is the invention of Raymond H. Wallace, a student of botany at Columbia University.

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