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...Cathedral Chapter forthwith for stained glass commissions, was investigated, put in charge of all the Cathedral's glass. Drawing on his exhaustive theoretical knowledge, Lawrence Saint tried to construct an oil-pressure glass furnace at Huntingdon Valley, got nothing more than a sinister blast of smoke & flame which alarmed his neighbors. Such technical difficulties were soon smoothed by professional advice, and Artist Saint successfully produced his first batch of colored glass. Gathering a hatful of samples, he hastened abroad to make a comparison with the glass in Chartres Cathedral. Perched on a teetering, 50-ft. ladder, Lawrence Saint held...
With a nice sense of psychologies, both British and Italian, new First Lord Sir Samuel had spectacular "sham battles" fought at Malta during the week. Simulating Italian bombers, British planes droned over Malta for three hours. On land antiaircraft batteries belched sheets of flame. British first-aid squads dashed about the streets pretending to succor the imaginary wounded, this bit of realism being frankly copied from Germany and Japan...
...dinner. For bullets they used neutrons. The neutrons were knocked out of beryllium by alpha particles from radium. The beryllium and 200 milligrams of radium sulphate, worth $4,000, were in a metal tube. One of the scientists started to solder a loose cap on the tube over a flame. The cap blew off. Some of the radium compound spurted into the faces, nostrils and mouths of the two men. Instantly they felt burns...
...Flame & Pressure. General Motors Corp. has developed an ingenious camera arrangement which takes 5,000 pictures per second of the fuel explosion in an automobile motor combustion chamber. When a car is bowling along at 40 m. p. h., its motor turns over about 2,000 times a minute, and one complete explosion lasts only 1/250th of a second. Of this brief performance the camera records 20 successive stages. The film runs continuously at crankshaft speed-up to 250 m. p. h. Light from the explosion passes through a heavy quartz window in the cylinder head to a stationary lens...
...plane droned up the steep pass beyond the tree line, its motors suddenly coughed. Back at once circled the pilot in search of a landing place. Before he could find one, his plane was caught in a strong air current, slithered downward, crashed in a fountain of flame on the rocky saddle between the two dormant volcanoes. When rescuers climbed up over the mountain flank, most of the 14 bodies were incinerated beyond recognition...