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...satellites according to Earth's distance from that planet. His calculation was only about 3% too high. First terrestrial measurement was made in 1849 by Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau of France, who passed a beam of light through the teeth of a spinning cogwheel. The light struck a mirror, bounced back to the wheel. The wheel had been timed to move just enough in the brief interim for the teeth of the wheel to intercept the light as it was reflected. By timing the revolutions per second of the cogwheel and measuring the distance to the mirror...
...late great Albert Abraham Michelson, in his final experiments, reflected light back & forth ten times in a mile-long vacuum tube from the faces of a rapidly spinning, 3 2-sided mirror. Velocity measurements completed by his successors after Michelson's death yielded an average figure of 186,270.75 miles per second. But in individual runs there were unexplained, periodic variations up to twelve miles a second. At first this caused excitement over possibility that the speed of light might not be constant (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933). The clamor was quieted by attributing the variations to "experimental error...
...other scattered Hearstpapers pay their way and appear safe for Hearst for a while: Detroit Times, San Antonio Light, Albany Times-Union, Syracuse Journal (and Sunday American), Boston Record (and Sunday Advertiser), New York Mirror...
...Brisbane died on Christmas Day 1936 he left a son, four daughters, around $5,000,000 and an unmatched 39-year record for turning omniscient piffle to profit in his column Today. Last fortnight a new Brisbane byline bobbed up for the first time in the Hearstian New York Mirror. Wrote Seward Brisbane, 24, of an interview with another great...
...inherited all the money he ever needed. Tall, withy, high-strung Seward Brisbane is a lot like him. He quit Harvard after two years "because I couldn't get interested in sitting around drinking with other fellows who had money," later worked briefly and unhappily as a Mirror reporter, spent a year in France. Now he is studying at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, wants to get into politics "on the reforming side." Toward newspaper work he feels an "intense hostility." Reason : successful newspapermen develop a competitive "thirst for power...