. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. en of Sheba was wrought and thatwhich went to fill the coffers of Solomon. The experts assure us that the ancientsmelting places are still easy of recogni-tion. They are, it is said, sunk into thefloor. The furnace blowpipes are madeof the finest granite powder cement andthe nozzles of the blowpipes are coveredwith splashes of gold. The linings of theholes are covered with specks of the first lining became worn by theheat a fresh lining of cement of an excel-lent quality, which has outlasted time,was smeared round on top of the oldlini
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. en of Sheba was wrought and thatwhich went to fill the coffers of Solomon. The experts assure us that the ancientsmelting places are still easy of recogni-tion. They are, it is said, sunk into thefloor. The furnace blowpipes are madeof the finest granite powder cement andthe nozzles of the blowpipes are coveredwith splashes of gold. The linings of theholes are covered with specks of the first lining became worn by theheat a fresh lining of cement of an excel-lent quality, which has outlasted time,was smeared round on top of the oldlining. It is said that one can take an oldlining, split off the layers with a knife andfind gold splashes in abundance. The tools of the ancient workers so fardiscovered include a small soapsionehammer and burnishing stones of waterworn rock, to which gold slill are evidences thai the ancientsconducted an extensive industry in themanufacture of gold ornaments andutensils. 1314 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE . I r| li illl. 1 THE COMBINATION-PHONEEXTENSION The ordinary wall telephone set muststay where it is put; the desk set isonly slightly more flexible. Suppose,then, you want a perfect working, easilyhandled telephone that can be put in anyroom in the house, or extended, by run-ning a little wire, so as to be available inthe outbuildings on the farm, in thedepartments of a factory or store, a telephone comes in handy wheninstalled by the bed, for use in case ofnight calls, inasmuch as you do not haveto get up and go to the regular telephone. The above requirements are filled bythe combination-phone extension, as it iscalled. With it you can telephone whilelying in bed, reclining in your easy chair—in fact, in any position—just as effective-ly and far more conveniently and com-fortably than if you had to stand up to awall-type telephone or bend down over anextension desk set. The combination transmitter and re-ceiver weighs scarcely more th
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