Now and then a star glimmered on a slipping ripple; on the iron bridge farther up the river a row of lights were strung like a necklace across the empty darkness....
— from The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

In nearly all wireless photographic systems devised up to the present the chief portion of the receiver consists of a very sensitive galvanometer, and although very good results have been obtained by their use they are more or less a nuisance, as the extreme delicacy of their construction renders them liable to a lot of unnecessary movement caused by external disturbances.
— from Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Marcus J. Martin