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That he may be adopted by an Indian tribe and given a feather headdress, delights the gangling physicist from Brussels. What he has heard concerning Manhattan terrifies him. Cried he last week: "Of the stratosphere I am not afraid. But what those journalists will...
...Purdue University (Lafayette, Ind.) Physicist Karl Lark-Horovitz last week showed big magic lantern pictures of atoms in action. In oldtime magic lanterns, a strong light shone through an illustrated glass slide. A lens projected an enlarged image of the picture upon a screen several feet away from the lantern. In Dr. Lark-Horovitz's arrangement the screen is a sheet of sensitive photographic film 9 ft. from the lantern light. The lantern light is a vacuum tube projecting a strong beam of x-rays. For slides he used a thin sheet of copper or shallow containers of volatile...
Pleased with his unaccustomed publicity, Dr. Stebbins generously credits much of his success to a onetime colleague at the University of Illinois, Mathematical Physicist Jakob Kunz...
Professor Bridgman, the first speaker, treating the subject from the point of view of the Physicist, outlined the general history of the subject. He told how acquaintance with energy goes back to ancient times, and cited examples of "perpetual motion" machines which have been built periodically in the hope of preventing the dissipation of energy. The early manufacturers of these machines saw no reason whatsoever why they would not work, and it was not until the nineteenth century that knowledge of the forces involved became sufficiently good, so that people began to realize that their labors were in vain. Professor...
...Features of the first issue: more on Life-After-Death by Sir Oliver Lodge; an argument for parachutes for airline passengers by 'Chute-Inventor Floyd Smith; industrial application of intelligence tests, by Colgate University's Professor Donald Anderson Laird; Sunlight v. Windows by General Electric's Physicist Matthew Luckiesh...