. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. As Assyrians Tangoed 3400 Years the Assyrians in 1500 b. c. It is takenfrom a fresco now in the British Museum,London. Whether this was called thehesitation waltz, the grapevine orthe Lotus Glide is beside the certainly remains that they were doing it thirty-four hundred years ago. THE TELECHRONOMETER This is the name of that ingeniousdevice for measuring the time a telephonehas been in use. The machine bearssome resemblance to a gas meter. Theremoval of the receiver from the hookputs the meter in connection with themotor at the central
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. As Assyrians Tangoed 3400 Years the Assyrians in 1500 b. c. It is takenfrom a fresco now in the British Museum,London. Whether this was called thehesitation waltz, the grapevine orthe Lotus Glide is beside the certainly remains that they were doing it thirty-four hundred years ago. THE TELECHRONOMETER This is the name of that ingeniousdevice for measuring the time a telephonehas been in use. The machine bearssome resemblance to a gas meter. Theremoval of the receiver from the hookputs the meter in connection with themotor at the central office, and the handsof the dial begin to move as soon as theoperator answers the call, and continueto register the time until the receiver isagain hung up. POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 1139 Dr. MagoonDemonstrating Orguinette. As soon as this fact permeated brain he gave up almost allthe rest of his work and moved to asecluded part of Cambridge, Mass., nearHarvard College. That was ten yearsago. Ever since then he has devoted hisentire time, except that given to theBibliotheca Sacra, to the building up ofproofs concerning his theory that commontime is the universal rhythm. The instru-ment that has assured him of the veracityof his theory is the orguinette, which isshown in the accompanyingillustration. This is really amusic box of ancient designto which Dr. Magoon hasadded many parts and fromwhich he has eliminatedeverything not needed for hispurpose. To fit this orguinette, , during his decade V COMMON TIME THE UNIVERSALRHYTHM After ten years of research into therhythm of all languages and all forms ofmusical composition, Herbert WilliamMagoon, , fellow in Sanskrit fromJohns Hopkins and former professor ofGreek and Latin at Obcrlin and associateeditor of the Bibliotheca Sacra, is a
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