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This he placed between silver plugs in a small glass tube. Platinum wires were connected to the silver plugs and brought out at the opposite ends of the tube. It required long study to determine just how to adjust the plugs between which the powder was loosely arranged. If the particles were pressed together too tightly they would not fall apart readily enough under the influence of the tapper.
The vibrations in the ether circled wider and wider, as the circular waves spread from the spot where a stone is dropped into a pool, but with the speed of light, until they reached a corresponding tin box on top of a like pole on the other side of the garden; this box, and the wire connected with it, caught the waves, carried them down to the coherer, and, joining the current from the local battery, a dot or dash was recorded; immediately after, the tapper separated the metal particles in the coherer and it was ready for the next series of waves.
Analytical Chemist goes to the door, confers angrily with unseen tapper, appears to become mollified by descrying reason in the tapping, and goes out. 'So he was discovered, only the other day, after having been expatriated about fourteen years. A Buffer, suddenly astounding the other three, by detaching himself, and asserting individuality, inquires: 'How discovered, and why? 'Ah! To be sure.
As for the professor, he was in the seventh heaven of delight all the way back. He sat on a stern seat by the albatross, which was looking wildly about, and kept talking to it as if he thought it could understand him. "Ah, my beauty, I'll astonish Professor Tapper with you when I get home," he said; "you are worthy to be ranked with the fur-bearing South Polar pollywog.
For this empty honor "Batty" Blake for as "Batty" he was known to nearly all the cities of America did an occasional bit of "stooling" for the Central Office, a tip as to a stray yeggman's return, a hint as to a "peterman's" activities in the shopping crowds, a whisper that a till tapper had failed to respect the Department's dead-lines. Yet nobody took Batty Blake seriously.
"MacNutt, the wire tapper, is one of them!" "And you would like us to get after MacNutt?" "Yes, I would!" "On the charge of wire tapping?" "That should be one of them!" "Then I can only refer you to the decision of the Court of Appeals in the McCord case, and the Appellate Division's reversal of the 'green-goods' conviction of 1900!
He arranged metal filings in a small glass tube six inches long and arranged a tapper to disarrange the filings after they had been brought together under the influence of the spark. With the Branly coherer as the basis Marconi sought to make improvements which would result in the detector he was seeking. For his powder he used nickel, mixed with a small proportion of fine silver filings.
Leo Ornstein was born in Krementchug, Russia, December 11th, 1895. His father was cantor in the synagogue. Until 1906 Ornstein was a pupil in the Petrograd Conservatory. Because of the pogroms, his family emigrated to New York. There he attended the Friends' School and studied music in the Institute of Musical Art. Later, he studied with Bertha Fiering Tapper.
He felt that in reference to this thing he was a beggar, and, for the first time in his life, experienced something of a beggar's despair. While he sat thus, musing bitterly, there came a tap at the door. "Come in." The tapper came in, and presented to the astonished gaze of Mr Denham the handsome face and figure of Guy Foster.
"Professor Tapper says so," was the reply, "I must believe it. I will search everywhere till I can find it." "I think he was mistaken," said Billy, "I can't imagine what such a creature could look like." "You may think he was mistaken," rejoined the professor, "but I do not. Professor Tapper is never wrong." "But suppose you cannot find such an animal?"
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