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...York Mirror...
...Professor Black's experiment a beam of light from a small are is passed through a slit, through a half-silvered mirror, and onto a rapidly rotating stainless steel mirror. This sends the light down the length of a corridor in the Research Building, through a special longfocus lens, and onto a plane mirror which reflects it back to the rotating mirror and thence to the half-silvered glass. The opacity of this glass diverts part of the light beam into a microscope where the image of the slit may be watched closely. Because of its great speed, the rotating...
...experiment so far has yielded results which are only accurate to within about five per cent. To obtain greater precision, Professor Black explained, the apparatus could not be nearly as suitable for demonstration to students. The most important part of the apparatus is the rotating mirror, which is driven by compressed air at the rate of 120 revolutions per second. Professor Black believes he will be able to raise this to one or three times that figure and there by obtain still more accurate results...
...printed the picture in its rotogravure section under the momentous caption: A MAN FLIES ON HIS OWN POWER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY. The tabloid New York Daily News, biggest circulation in the U. S., did likewise. So did Hearst's New York American and tabloid Daily Mirror and his Chicago Herald & Examiner...
Quick to seize the similarity between the MacMonnies affair and the budding Manship incident, the tabloid Daily Mirror printed an imaginary conversation be tween the two sculptors' statues, head lined it "PROMETHEUS" BIG SISSY TO "CIVIC VIRTUE," promised to run further news of the "amazing wrangle...