A dozen or more metal implements are arranged in neat rows on the table next to the bed. They look like something Frankenstein might have had applied to his monster's neck. I begin to feel nervous.

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ABOUT two and a half years ago I noticed that if an ordinary small tuning fork (having prongs 6 to 8 cm. in length) held in the hand were sounded by a smart blow on a moderately hard cushion, then on ...

In a curious inquiry, a reader sparks a cosmic conversation by questioning whether a tuning fork struck in the void of space could forever produce vibrations. Is that possible? Before we delve into ...

THE tuning-fork when its number of double vibrations, to and from in a second, or briefly its frequency, has been ascertained, is a most convenient instrument for measuring minute divisions of time.

The Keefer Bar, located in Vancouver’s Chinatown, has the appearance of a postwar back-alley Asian apothecary-cum-opium-den. Behind the bar are jars of medicinal herbs—astragalus, magnolia bark, a ...