The Edison Monthly, 5. cilt

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New York Edison Company, 1912
 

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Sayfa 261 - He made darkness his secret place: his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed : hailstones and coals of fire.
Sayfa 261 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Sayfa 170 - The workman who got the sketch was John Kruesi. I didn't have much faith that it would work, expecting that I might possibly hear a word or so that would give hope of a future for the idea. Kruesi, when he had nearly finished it, asked what it was for. I told him I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. "However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb/ et cetera.
Sayfa 170 - ... start sawing wood. I reached the conclusion that if I could record the movements of the diaphragm properly, I could cause such record to reproduce the original movements imparted to the diaphragm by the voice, and thus succeed in recording and reproducing the human voice. Instead of using a disk I designed a little machine using a cylinder provided with grooves around the surface. Over this was to be placed tinfoil, which easily received and recorded the movements of the diaphragm. A sketch was...
Sayfa 34 - ... divine Name, or rather of the correct method of pronouncing that Name. The Jews thought of this Name as a word of four letters, JHVH, which we generally read as Jehovah. The tradition relates that the Omnific Word which, being the Name of God, commanded all the creative forces of Nature, was pronounced by the high priest once a year on the day of atonement, but that after the exile the true pronunciation was lost. The consonants remained, but the vowel points essential to correct articulation...
Sayfa 86 - ... produced nevertheless an effect of magical stillness, silence, and solitude. We were alone in it, save that now and then in the far-distant spaces a figure might flit and disappear between the huge glinting columns of metal. It was a hall enchanted and inexplicable. I understood nothing of it. But I understood that half the electricity of New York was being generated by its engines of a hundred and fifty thousand horsepower, and that if the spell were lifted the elevators of New York would be...
Sayfa 88 - ... cylinder and crank. Statistics are tiresome and futile to stir the imagination. I disdain statistics, even when I assimilate them. And yet when my attention was directed to one trifling block of metal, and I was told that it was the most powerful " unit " in the world, and that it alone would make electricity sufficient for the lighting of a city of a quarter of a million people, I felt that statistics, after all, could knock you a staggering blow. . . . In this other palace, too, was the same...
Sayfa 41 - ... Whirr! Whirr! The mighty dynamos hum and purr, And the blue flames crackle and glow and burn Where the brushes touch and the magnets turn. Whirr! Whirr! Whirr! Whirr! This is no shrine of the Things That Were, But the tingling altar of live To-day, Where the modern priests of the "Juice" hold sway; Where the lights are born and the lightnings made To serve the needs of the world of trade. Whirr! Whirr! Whirr! Whirr! The white lights banish the murky blurr, And over the city, far and near, The...

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