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Even at a half RPM, your seams might not hold with a real wobble, and I don't like the idea of falling into a vacuum bottle as big as the one out there without a suit." "How much time do you need?" "On my mark, make it T minus thirty minutes. That ought to do it. O.K., here we go." There was a brief pause, then Bessie's voice came formally over the all-stations annunciator system. "Now hear this.
Each berth has a bell-rope communicating with a patented machine called the "Annunciator." This is a circular plate about the size of the face of an eight-day clock, covered with numbers corresponding with those of the state-rooms. Each number is concealed by a semi-circular plate, which is removed or turned round as soon as the rope is pulled in the state-room with the corresponding number.
We had been at General Quarters for twenty-one hours when the wall annunciator hummed. "Captain, this is Mannion. I've busted it...." "I'll be right there," I said, and left at a run. Mannion was writing as I entered ComSection. He stopped his recorder and offered me a sheet. "This is what I've got so far, Captain," he said.
In the police department it will do almost everything but eat peanuts from the corner stands. I saw this system on exhibition in a large room, with the signals or boxes on one side and the annunciator or central station on the other. By walking from one to the other, a distance in all of thirty or forty miles, I was enabled to get a slight idea of the principle.
After telephoning, Zita went directly to Doctor Q's laboratory, to which she was admitted after he had seen her through his periscope annunciator. The doctor was fumbling with a test-tube, from which some heavy fumes were issuing. He motioned her to a chair, near a table upon which were many papers which looked to Zita as though they might be of importance.
I redeemed the property at former rates, after deducting ten per cent. for use of ladder, it being my ladder, and, next day we sent down for the expert once more, and had the third story attached to the alarm, for three hundred dollars. "By this time the 'annunciator' had grown to formidable dimensions.
"Now the fire-houses in the particular district where that fire is=20have received the alarm instantly. Four engines, two hook-and-ladders, a water-tower, the battalion chief, and a deputy are hurrying to that fire. Hello, here comes another." Again the buzzer sounded. "One," "four," "five" showed in the annunciator. Even before the clerks could respond, McCormick had dragged us to the door.
He turned and pressed the annunciator button and the hatch slid open. The three cadets entered the room and snapped to attention. "Polaris unit reporting as ordered, sir," said Tom. Vidac swung around in his chair and stared up at the three cadets, a hint of a smile curling his lips. "You've done a fine job, boys," he said. "The fleet is in good formation."
Next he attached wires and ran them to the library above, where he installed an annunciator, the needle of which would indicate when the trap was sprung and the picture taken. Fascinated, the two girls watched. Eva was almost fainting with grief at the terrible fate that had overtaken her father. Even in his sickness, at least she had had him. But now he was gone to what she could only guess.
"It runs into a hood, is pressed against the burglar's nose, and two minutes later the man is stark and stiff on the floor! "Meanwhile the annunciator bell tells me what window has been opened. I ring up the police and it's all over with the man who tried to break in." "It sounds all right," I admitted. "Why didn't it do all that just now?" "Just now? Oh you mean just now?" stammered the inventor.
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