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Title: Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Furman, Franklin De Ronde, 1870- ed
Subjects: Stevens family Morton, Henry, 1836-1902 Stevens Institute of Technology
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J., Stevens institute of technology
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ady. Then Mr. Higby will RUN IN THE ANGEL, Mr. Sellers will lightup electric lamp, Mr. Brown will light a red fire, and Mr. Stewart a piece of magnesium, as alsoKlapp, Phillips, etc. Then Mr. Higby will RUN OUT THE ANGEL, and Mclntyre will show diagrams 7and 8, while Mr. Sellers removes the electric lamp and gets ready red and green fires. Show shadow of veil and needle. Send out lantern by Klapp and Phillips. Higby will then RUN IN EARTH, AND WORK MOON, then run off these andbring in movable flat. Mr. Higby will then RUN IN MOUNTAINS on background and bank in front whileMr. S. SETS THE SUN ON FLOOR IN POSITION FOR RISING. Show spectre of Brocken.During this time Mr. S. will arrange the other electric lamp BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS fornext experiment. THE FACULTY 171 Mr. Outerbridge will tell Mr. Higby to lower white curtain, raise horizon drop, andRUN OUT MOUNTAINS, and Mclntyre to show diagrams 3 and 4. Experiments with electric light in the sun. Mr. .S., on signal from Outerbridge, will
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Burning a Sword during the Course of a Lecture Delivered by HenryMorton at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, May, 1868. light up and have combat of giant and dwarf. Klapp and Outerbridge. Rabbit on chair.CARRY OFF MEN IN HAND, run about and STEP INTO CEILING, etc., etc., etc. I also find among my notes the perorations or concluding paragraphs of two ofMr. Mortons lectures, which are interesting as illustrating the poetical forms of expres-sion which, judiciously introduced, added not a little to the charm of these discourses. Thefirst was the conclusion to the lecture on Light, in which the analogies, or, rather, close 172 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY relations, between sound and light, had been dwelt upon and fully developed. It reads asfollows: From what has been seen this evening I hope that you will be able to attach a moredefinite meaning to that frequently used, though vague expression, Music of the Spheres. There is such music. All day long, from the glowing sun, pours

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