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"Now, the audion, as you see, consists of two platinum wings, parallel to the plane of a bowed filament of an incandescent light in a vacuum. It was invented by Dr. Lee DeForest to detect wireless. When the light is turned on and the little tantalum filament glows, it is ready for business.
Deforest Young believed that he was beginning to hate the boy. Suddenly he leaned over, and touched the bell. It pealed loudly through the building. Tess sat up. The bell disturbed her, and she cast her eye upon the basket, with a shifting, darting glance. The janitor appeared at the door. "Hyram," said Young, "could you find a vessel which would hold berries or fish?
Morse is at leisure and disposed to undertake this work, he will please prepare his canvas and let me know when he is ready for my attendance. NEW HAVEN, 30th March, 1823. Whether Morse succeeded to the satisfaction of Mr. DeForest does not appear from the correspondence, but both this portrait and that of Mrs.
Tess jubilantly cooked the fish for dinner, spattering the bacon fat upon the floor. She smiled alternately at her father and Professor Young; she caroled like a spring bird with bursts of happy song. Then they three sat down to the table to eat the homely squatter fare. A sickening longing swept over Deforest Young.
Writes to his wife from Boston about a bonnet. Goes to Washington, D.C. Paints large picture of House of Representatives. Artistic but not financial success. Donates five hundred dollars to Yale. Letter from Mr. DeForest. New York "Observer." Discouragements. First son born. Invents marble-carving machine. Goes to Albany. Stephen Van Rensselaer. Slight encouragement in Albany. Longing for a home.
Adams and Sumner, Labor Problems, chap. V. A. S. Warner, American Charities. E. T. Devine, Principles of Relief. S. Webb, Prevention of Destitution. L. Veiller, Housing Reform. Deforest and Veiller, The Tenement-House Problem. J. Lee, Constructive and Preventive Philanthropy. Alden and Hayward, Housing. J. A. Riis, The Battle with the Slum. National Municipal Review, vol. 2, p. 210.
Mrs. deForest Caswell was an attractive woman verging on forty, a chance acquaintance at a shoppers' tea room downtown who had proved to be an uptown neighbor. "I have had some rather strange experiences, Mildred," confessed Constance tentatively. "Why!" "Because " the other woman hesitated, then added, "why should I not tell you! Last night, Constance, I had the strangest dream.
These rocks afterward went by the name of "Uncas's Chair." Uncas was buried in the royal burying-ground of the Mohegans near the falls of the Yantic River. His monument is there now in the heart of the city of Norwich. DeForest, John W. <i>History of the Indians of Connecticut</i>. J. W. Hammersley. Hartford, 1853. Caulkins, Frances M. <i>History of Norwich</i>. Hartford, 1874.
Henry A. DeForest and wife; and suffered a new bereavement in the death of the second Mrs. Smith, but little more than a year after her arrival. Some months later, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman retired from the field, in consequence of failing health. Messrs, Beadle, Wolcott, and Leander Thompson, and Miss Tilden, also returned home soon after. Mr.
It rather startled Constance to hear frankly stated what she already had observed. She wondered how far the estrangement had gone. The fact was that she had rather liked deForest Caswell, although she had only met her friend's husband a few times.
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