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HOW IT WORKS.

parabolic reflector, which sends all reflected light forward in a pencil of parallel rays. The most powerful searchlight in existence gives a light equal to that of 350 million candles.

Fig. 128.
Fig. 128. —A parabolic reflector.

THE COMPOUND MICROSCOPE.

We have already observed (Fig. 110) that the nearer an object approaches a lens the further off behind it is the real image formed, until the object has reached the focal distance, when no image at all is cast, as

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