Megaphone
an instrument invented by Thomas A. Edison for carrying the sound of the voice long distances without the aid of wires.
MEGAPODIUS (-pō'di-us), moundbird; the typical genus of the family Megapodidæ; often referred to the Cracidæ. Authorities vary greatly as to the number of species. They are found in the Samoa Islands, the Tonga group, the South Atlantic; M. novæ zelandiæ is from the South Pacific; and M. kuzira, the Japanese humpback, ranges to the Aleutian and Californian coasts. They yield little oil or baleen. An adult averages 50 feet in length. MEGARIS (mega-ris), in ancient geography, a small mountainous region of Hellas, or Greece proper, lying between Attica and the Isthmus of Corinth. The people were excellent sailors, the most famous were Byzantium (667 and founded several colonies, of which in Sicily. The capital was Megara, long в. c.), Chalcedon, and Megara (Hyblæa) an important commercial city, and famous for its white shell marble, and for a white kind of clay, of which pottery was made.
MEGATHERIUM a genus of extinct edentates, family Mega- (-ther'i-um), theriidæ , founded on a nearly complete MEGHNA skeleton discovered on the banks of the Lujan, about 9 miles from Buenos Aires, and sent by the Marquis of Loretto, the viceroy, to the Royal Museum of Madrid.
There are two skeletons in England; one found near Rio Salado, in 1832, now in the Museum of the College of Surgeons; the other, found at Luxan, in 1837, now in the British Museum of Natural History, South Kensington. The best-known species, M. americanum, was nearly as MEIGHEN all Egypt. Together with his son Ibrahim he aided in bringing a large part of the Sudan under Egyptian rule. In 1824-1827 he assisted the Sultan in endeavoring to reduce the Morea, which led to the destruction of his fleet by the allied European powers at Navarino (1827). Subsequently he turned his arms against the Sultan, and in his efforts to secure dominion over Syria by armed invasion, he was so far successful SKELETON OF MEGATHERIUM large as an elephant, though the limbs were shorter. Its mounted skeleton measures 18 feet in length, of which the tail occupies five.
MEGHNA (megh'-), a river or estuary of Bengal, which carries the waters of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra to the sea; its most noteworthy characteristic is the "bore" or tidal wave which advances swiftly at the height of 20 feet.