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HIGH MAGNIFICATION CRESCOGRAPH
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to the requirements of the experiment, The complete apparatus is shown in figure 58.
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Fig. 58. — Complete apparatus. P, plant ; S, micrometer screw for raising or lowering the plant; C, clockwork for periodic oscillation of plate; W, rotating wheel. V, cylindrical plant-chamber. (From a photograph.)
Connecting links. — Another puzzling difficulty lay in the fact that the magnification actually obtained was sometimes very different from the calculated value. This unreliability I was able to trace to the defects inherent in thread connections, employed at first to attach the plant