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...people poured into small (pop. 5,521) Fairmont, Minn. Besides hotels every spare room for miles around was filled. Though 23 restaurant stands were set up to peddle hamburgers, hot dogs and coffee, many a prudent farmwife brought along great hampers of cold fried chicken, head cheese, hams, doughnuts, layer cakes and pies. Twenty-four State police directed the jammed traffic of cars from as far away as Kansas and Ohio. More exciting than any football game to Fairmont's visitors was that day's sporting event-the 11th annual National Corn Husking Championship...
...There are three major ionized layers. Their heights were obtained by noting the time required for radio echoes to return to Earth. As the signal frequency is stepped up, a "critical frequency" is usually found at which the signals shoot through a lower layer and bounce back from a higher, or escape into space. By this means density of ionization and fluctuations therein may be charted...
...layer, F², is "strongly heated" where the sun enters it vertically. From that point winds of heat-expanded air blow out in all directions, carrying tides of dense ionization, like a jet of water pouring over a round ball. But the Earth-ball is also rotating. Where the expanding waves go in the direction of rotation the wave-front is smooth; where they go against it they are like whitecaps in a tide...
Because short waves travel in optical lines, that is, in lines similar to beams of light, it was thought, up to a few months ago, that such waves could not go more than fifty miles, due to ground interference. Very rarely do short waves reflect from the Heaviside Layer. When it was recently found that the station in West Hartford, more than eighty miles away from Boston and across a mountain range, could get signals through, all previous theories concerning short waves were upset. The new station here has been established to carry out further experiments into the nature...
...seem unlikely. Whether undertaken for science or as record-breaking stunts they were for the most part either comedies or tragedies. The stratosphere itself was discovered from the ground. In 1896 a French meteorologist named Teisserenc de Bort sent up sounding balloons with automatic instruments, discovered a calm, cold layer of air of uniform temperature, beginning six miles up. In 1927 Captain Hawthorne Gray of the U. S. Army Air Corps went up in an open basket to a height of eight miles, died of exposure on the way down. In 1931. Auguste Piccard. pioneer of the sealed gondola...