(thing) by EverybodysCyclopedia Thu Jul 18 2002 at 22:13:05

Electric Egg, an ellipsoidal glass vessel, with metallic caps at each end, which may be filled with a feeble violet light by means of an electric machine acting on it after a vacuum has been made inside the glass.

Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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