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CHAPTER III HOW GEOFFREY RAVENSLEE WENT SEEKING AN OBJECT A clock in the hall without struck midnight, but Mr. Ravenslee sat there long after the silvery chime had died away, his chin sunk upon his broad chest, his sombre eyes staring blindly at the fading embers, lost in profound and gloomy meditation.
— from The Definite Object: A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol
It was in connection with the effective dynamo-electric apparatus of M. Gramme above referred to that the electric candle invented by M. Paul Jablochoff became soon thereafter extensively employed for electric lighting in Paris, and elsewhere in Europe.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
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