MICROPHONE

an instrument for}! meen ap na earner fbi ease It} | usually consists of a aH of carbon pn ne po apnea td er fixed pieces, | } The pieces are made part of the | « circuit of a telephone, and on a slight!: noise being made on the wooden support |! of the microphone it is heard greatly | § augmented at the earpiece of the tele-| < phone. an Instrument for magni-| t the apparent size of smal) objects. | ” t consists eeeny of two lenses} ' ee of a small tube. | t one nearer to the object to be looked | t OO ee ee eee t the object within the tabs, while the eye- | ' plece or lens near the oe further magnifies this image. di ecting So fe of ono lens only. MID. a fabled king of Phra, who begged that all he touched it tarn into gold. The god Bacchus granted his request, but Midas soon wished it otherwise. When his food and drink became gold on ae his mouth, he was “aoe “A688 °s" pelos Sc a y understood to extend from the destruction of the Roman Empire, towards the end of the 5th centary, to about the time of the discovery of America, in 1492. It Spam ci a sues in eanep ystem, a evils, and benefits. MIDDLES BOROUGH, «4 great tron oe and ehipplog town on the Tees, in Yorkshire. 1829 a aR! farmhouse occupied the site, By 1900 it housed about 90,000 P recom ts rapid —_ is duo to the bag the adjacent Cleveland (For population. etc., see p. 902.) [s. 213]