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Title: Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, M.P
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Stone, John Benjamin, Sir, 1838-1914 MacDonagh, Michael, 1862-1946
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament Statesmen
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f the remains of William EwartGladstone, before the funeral in Westminster Abbey,and the spectacle of peojDle of all classes, gentle andsimple, of all political opinions. Conservatives andLiberals, united in a common sorrow, crowding to payunanimous homage to that great servant of the Nation. The lying-in-state was plain and simple in theextreme, and yet had a dignity and solemnity thatmade it most impressive. The building was undraped.No trappings of woe hung from its grey and ruggedwalls. In the centre of the hall stood a lofty catafalque.At the four corners were lighted candles in massivesilver candlesticks. Behind it stood a beautiful brasscross embossed with precious stones. A white silk pall,with gold and blue embroideries, hung at the foot of thebier, displaying the inscription, ^ Requicscai in pace.^ The bier was .surmounted by a plain polished oakcasket with brass mountings. How curiously little thecoffin of the illustrious statesman socincd in (hi diiiiand spacious hall ! so
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5° ChevalierGUGLIELMO MARCONI. The man whose name will be for ever associated witlithat stupendous discovery or invention — wirelesstelegraphy. It had already been proved before Chevalier IMarconiwas bom in 1875, that an electric wave, or shock,generated by a special apparatus, would travel swiftlythrough space, and affect a sensitive instrument, tunedto receive its vibrations, several miles away. Thisdiscovery gave to the youthful Marconi the idea of theabolition of the telegraph wire, as but a clumsy devicefor instant communication between distant lands. Itexercised a powerful fascination over his imagination,and spurred the inventive faculty and the delight inelectrical experiments which he had displayed even inhis earliest schoolboy days. After years of painstaking and exhaustive investi-gations on his fathers estate in Italy, he invented twoinstruments of weird and almost uncanny powers—a transmitter which sends a message on a magneticwave from one continent to another, acro

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