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...shorter radio waves are the closer they seem to have the characteristics of light waves. A parabolic mirror, set behind an antenna, will concentrate radio waves as it would waves of light. Certain English scientists contend that varied pressure gradients in the air, produced by storms, have the same effect on short waves as layers of glass of varied densities have on light. However, the experiments carried on so far by the new station have led to the conclusion that short waves are not as nearly skin to light waves as was believed...
...property is owned by his mother whose own town house, No. 47 East 65th St., adjoins. A sliding mirror in the President's upstairs living room connects the two houses...
...Manhattan tabloid Daily Mirror said that Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning said of her late husband...
...months California Institute of Technology has wondered where to put the 200-inch telescope for which a 20-ton mirror was poured last spring (TIME, April 2) and for which another mirror will be cast this autumn or winter. Last week Caltech announced that the colossus would be housed on Palomar Mountain, 80 mi. northeast of San Diego, which is neither too close to the sea (fog and clouds) nor to the desert (heat radiation...
...large telescope at the observatory has recently been completed and is being used for photoelectric measurements of the brightness of starts. It will be impossible to use it to take pictures until a new mirror is completed, a process which will take approximately two years...