Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 159
erve which of them turnedblack soonest. They were quick to see thatthe smallest did, but they were unable to tellwhy, until I broke a large glowing coal into a score of fragments,which almost at once turned black. Then one of them cried, Why, smashing thatcoal gave it more sur-face ! This… … Cinders large and small on hearth. A CUBE SUBDIVIDED 121 than any of its worlds is the sun. Explaining to him the fieryorigin of the solar system, I shall not soon forget his delight—in which the others presently shared—when it burst upon him first Cut Second CutThird Cut- - -…
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