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Page 18 - I will now throw a beam from the electric lamp upon the specimens of silk on the screen, and it will be observed how much their brilliancy is increased under the influence of that pure and beautiful light. I am indebted to my kind friends, Messrs. Simpson, Maule, and Nicholson, for the various splendid...
Page 135 - ... attack and surprise will be reduced to a fine art. There will also be machinery for tunnelling rapidly, as there will be great activity underground, partly for protection and partly because night will afford no cover when wireless sight, at present in its infancy, is perfected. Clouds of poison gas will be released at a sufficient height to render them innocuous to those below, but deadly to an invading aeroplane that enters their zone. The war of 2023 will naturally be a wireless war, for there...
Page 80 - Chronicle be placed in every Presbyterian family in our land ? It will now be so cheap as to be within the reach of all, and it is only necessary that the...
Page 137 - As women are adapting themselves successfully to all masculine pursuits, it is only natural to expect that they will play an equally important part in future warfare, sharing all the dangers on complete equality with their menfolk, until the sexes are indistinguishable.
Page 29 - If matter is the result of defined electric vibration, could we not transfer our tables, our chairs, and ourselves in effect, by a knowledge of the forces which produce these oscillations.
Page 29 - And what therefore is to prevent the transference of the conception of matter and of our mentality from one planet to another...
Page 43 - Television is developing rapidly now, and we do not have to look far ahead to see the day when it will play a big part in our existence.
Page 79 - One of the most important developments of the near future will be an improved system of road-making.