"Ebonite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have said, the telephone is installed. The instrument is fashioned in a severe style (receiver and mouth-piece mounted on an ebonite column of the Roman Doric Order), and it stands for all to see as a symbol that in the seclusion of our offices we are in touch with the world at large. But as a symbol only it must remain, for the voices of the outer world that call us up as they search for other friends ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, February 25th, 1920 • Various
... usual way of producing one kind of electricity is by rubbing resin (or sulphur, or ebonite) with wool or fur, and the other by rubbing glass with leather. At first sight, it does not seem as if the two counter-substances represent the required alchemic counter-poles to resin and glass. For ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs
... crystallized in very small crystals cannot be readily separated from the sirupy mother-liquor by any of the usual laboratory appliances. For drying substances which act on copper the basket may be made of platinum or ebonite; in the latter case, owing to the increased size of the perforations, it may be necessary to line the basket with platinum wire ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 • Various |
