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gentleman,  Pyotr Stepanovich Ivanov, now  a  professor, occasionally tried.
The  first  chamber  was destroyed by  the  frenzied crowd on  the  night of
Persikov's  murder. The other three chambers were burnt on the Red Ray State
Farm  in Nikolskoye  during  the first  battle  of  the aeroplanes with  the
reptiles, and it did  not prove possible to reconstruct  them. Simple though
the combination of the lenses with the mirror-reflected light may have been,
it  could not  be  reproduced  a second time, in spite of  Ivanov's efforts.
Evidently,  in  addition to  mere knowledge  it required  something special,
something possessed by one man alone in the whole world, the late  Professor
Vladimir Ipatievich Persikov.

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