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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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an you.see big game in their thousandswithin a few feet of an on-rushing trairt,not only gazelle and antelope but alsoeverything from giraffe, lion, rhinoceridownwards? Only the mammoth ele-phant has been driven back by the snort-ing iron steed of advancing civilization. The natives in their wild state, un-hampered by Mother Grundy, rush to therailway depots to meet the train, or idlywatch it as it races past their plantationsor grazing cattle. You can sit in comfort inyour railroad coach and see unharnessedAfrica in its native and primitive state. Lord Kelvin could sometimes makesly jokes. For instance, when the greatEnglish physicist Joule, who was one ofKelvins staunch friends, was visitinghis lordships workshop, he came acrossa large coil of piano wire and asked forwhat this was to be used. When Kelvinreplied that it was for sounding, Jouleasked: What note? The deep C,said Kelvin slyly as it was for takingsoundings in the ocean. 1304 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 1305
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A Railway Station on the A Cutting in Mombasa, the Start of the Railway THE HOME OF SANDALWOOD seven eighths of the worlds supply. A perfume well deserving its vogue is This wood, used for cremation on funeral from sandalwood, the finest wood coming pyres, and for boxes, fans, etc., and from the Indian province of Mysore, medicines, has been known from the most Here in a belt 240 by sixteen miles grows ancient limes. A Light Which Beats Daylight BY E. L. ELLIOTT As clear as daylight is a commonexpression for the highest degree ofdistinctness, or visibility. In this, as inmany other cases, however, science hasbeaten Nature at her own game. Thereis an electric lamp which gives out itslight from incandescent mercury vapor,the rays of which enable the eye to seevery fine details on small objects withgreater clearness than in broad daylight.The full explanation of this involves thepeculiar structure of the eye as well asthe theory of light, which are too tech-nical to be set forth here. Th

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