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...Concerned by Sylvia's absence from church, the pastor dropped in to inquire about her, was told by the woman that the girl was being kept home because she stole things. At the time, Sylvia was tied to an upstairs bed, forbidden water or the use of the bathroom...
...alert researchers, the ordinary bathroom has long been a fount of fascinating scientific knowledge. Archimedes divined the principle of buoyancy while dunking in his tub. Modern researchers have written learned treatises on the vortex formed by water draining from a sink. Now two physicists have found that a bathroom is the perfect place to study another phenomenon: how splashing water generates atmospheric electricity...
...waterdrop's skin of negative ions is stripped off and discharged into the atmosphere as the drop breaks up when it hits a surface. At first, Pierce haunted waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley. Suddenly he realized that "many of Lenard's experiments could be performed in a bathroom, and have indeed been constantly operating in American bathrooms...
Cool Reception. According to Pierce and Whitson, the atmosphere of a bathroom is electrified whenever water is running. The charge varies from a high negative field during a shower to a barely noticeable charge when a toilet is flushed. Water that falls into an empty tub produces a higher charge than when it bubbles into a filled one. Splashing water was not the only electrical-field generator noted by the scientists. The highest charge, measured by a field mill installed in a bathroom being used by guests at a cocktail party, occurred when a cocktail waitress combed...
...Amusing, but not entirely appropriate," huffed one scientist in the A.G.U. audience, which greeted the bathroom research with polite but restrained applause. Pierce was unruffled by the cool reception. "If I had said that these were experiments on the breakup of water and had set it up as a laboratory experiment," he said, "then it would be taken very seriously. But as a matter of fact, it works perfectly in a bathroom and that's very much cheaper...