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The Gold Wire

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 19, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 37.

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The Gold Wire

“It is said that an attempt was once made to make a gold wire fine enough for use in a transit instrument, the result showing that gold would draw out to the length of twenty thousand feet to the ounce. Then the ‘shadow of a thread’ fell to pieces, and the scientist returned to his spider’s web.”