We knew what we wanted; a carbonised tissue, which would withstand the electric current in a vacuum for, say, a thousand hours.
"The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont"
Robert Barr
My assistants started out to find this tissue, and we simply carbonised everything we could lay our hands on, and ran the current through it in a vacuum.
"The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont"
Robert Barr