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Morse's group solved this problem by making large, high-powered versions of a diffusion pump invented by General Electric's Physicist Irving Langmuir. The diffusion pump works by blowing a strong jet of mercury or oil vapor into the neck of the vessel to be emptied. The...
Permission from Palestine. Permission to erect a Bahá'i House of Worship "in the center of the Western World" was received from Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'u'lláh's son, in 1902. The fact that there were very few Bah...
And still the ROTC system continues, intensifies, and plans for the indefinite future. The total effect is one of confusion to the individual and an overall diffusion of energy. There is a fundamental friction between the military habit of mind, and the approach to thought and action which a liberal...
In insects, as Naturalist Julian Huxley explains, microscopic air tubes carry oxygen "directly to and from the tissues instead of using dual mechanisms of lungs and blood stream. Laws of gaseous diffusion are such that [this system] is extremely efficient for very small animals, but becomes rapidly less efficient with...
These are the conclusions of a small, soft-spoken Hindu astrophysicist, Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar of the University of Chicago. Born in Lahore 32 years ago, he is a graduate of Madras and Cambridge Universities, a nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, who won a Nobel Prize (1930) for his studies on...