"Millimetre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sending station he used the exciter of his teacher, Professor Righi. This, too, he modified and perfected for his practical purpose. As he used the device it consisted of two brass spheres a millimeter apart. An envelope was provided so that the sides of the spheres toward each other and the space between was occupied by vaseline oil which served to keep the faces of the spheres clean and produce a more uniform spark. Outside the two spheres, but ...
— Masters of Space - Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty • Walter Kellogg Towers
... given by the conditions of viewing pictures, which are framed and thus isolated from surrounding influences, and referred, as compositions, to the middle line suggested by this emphasized frame. An adjustable frame of millimeter paper, divided in half vertically by a white silk thread, was fitted over the picture to be measured, and measurements were made to left and to right of this thread-line and, as required, vertically, by reference to the millimeter ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various |
