Flame, electricity and the camera; man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the wireless telegraph and the photography of color (1900)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday & McClure co. · leaf 166
esent enormous waste attend-ing its production. To the eyes of early observers light was always associatedwith heat, and the auroras of the upper air, as well as thenebulae of the remotest heavens, were deemed to be hot likethe stars, simply because they shone with brightness in thesky. Recent and… … THE UNAPPROACHED FIREFLY 131 earth of light generated without heat as a companion.The glow-worm, low as it is in the scale of life, accom-plishes the feat. So in more striking fashion does the fire-fly, especially in the large species Pyrophorus noctilucus,which flourishes in Cuba (Fig.47). In…
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