Word: electromagneticism
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Four switches on one side are marked "electrostatic fields," while four opposing controls bear the sign "electromagnetic fields." The biggest and most business-like switch of all is marked "electrostatic distributor."
If the human eye were tuned to longer wave lengths of radiation, it would be able to see radio waves. The ethereal wiggles that gird the globe with speech and music are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, ultraviolet and infra-red radiation, x-rays, gamma...
Because the world's 1½ Ib. of radium is worth some $1,500,000 an ounce and because radium can cause incurable burns, every time a tiny capsule of radium or a tiny needle-like tube of radium emanation is thrown away with a patient's dressing...
In general, there are two approaches to the problem of predicting seismic disturbances. One is by observing certain phenomena which have been found to precede them. These are slight tiltings of the ground, as detected in Japan by Inouye and Sugiyama; changes in the force of gravity, as reported from...
Last week in Philadelphia Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, director of the Bartol Research Foundation and able popularizer (The Architecture of the Universe), took a group of distinguished hearers for a ride on the Second Law, got the Universe into an even worse state than Eddington's featureless mass...