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Lightning is a serious menace to electrical apparatus. Temperamentally it is unsuited to laboratory experimentation. One cannot lasso the lightning and cage it in a condenser for study at leisure. But the General Electric Company can now make it to order. Last week Physicist Frank William Peek Jr. announced in his address to the regional convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers that artificial lightning of 3,600,000 volts had been produced by a new generator in the high voltage engineering laboratory at Pittsfield, Mass...
...Jeans was not the only astronomer who, last week, was engaged in somewhat mundane speculations. Dr. Paul Renno Heyl, a physicist attached to the U. S. Bureau of Standards, began his second series of experiments to determine the world's weight. Last year he estimated this to be 6,592,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. Now, by making a slight change in his apparatus,* Astronomer Heyl expects to achieve a slight but consequential difference in his result...
Cathode Rays. Little more than a generation ago the British physicist Sir William Crookes sealed the ends of two wines in a glass tube and in the tube created a vacuum. Then he shunted a current of electricity into the wires. The current sent a stream of electrons speeding from one of the wires, the cathode. They were cathode rays and they behaved in some ways like radium, soon after to be discovered by the Curies. They made the vacuum tube glow with-brilliant fluorescence. If a piece of metal were sealed in the tube, in the path...
Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist, and Frank E. Lutz, curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History, played scientific tricks with a cricket. They played the black bug in a vacuum and in a container of compressed air; for ten minutes they whirled him in a machine 1,200 times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds...
...Physicist Wilson. In 1895, when Professor Compton was a demure three-year-old baby at Wooster (he is now 35), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson began his serious study of electromagnetic forces. This was at Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University. Since 1925 he has been Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge...