Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 301
world, till thencontent with the old methods of lighting,soon blossomed and flashed with the radi-ance of electricity. Now, no first-class modernship, whether a man-of-war or a passenger-steamer, is complete without its sets of insidelamps and outside search-lights, and the modernvoyager has his… … zon, spread out over a vast expanse of water,or narrowed down to a thread-like beam oflight, revealing with blinding intensity every-thing within its range, and bringing up objectsout of the darkness, with a silvery sheenbeautiful to behold. A fine exhibition of its splen-did equipment of electric…
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