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...sugar, has a receipt: Make a little formaldehyde out of carbon dioxide and water, expose it to intensely active ultraviolet light, and you have sugar. Genuine glucose has been made 'by this process, but before such can become a breakfast-table commodity the proper wavelength of the violet ray must be ascertained. It is roughly gauged at from 200 to 220 millimicrons.- If all the land were bread and cheese, and all the sea were ink, what would we do for gasoline? This was the general proposition discussed by T. A. Boyd and C. M. Larson, Manhattan scientist. "Petroleum...
...Morgan Taylor, of Grinnell College, la., evoked plaudits with his low-hurdling. Joie Ray, onetime champion miler, straggled in the ruck in his race. The Illinois A. C, by assiduously piling up second and third places, won the National team title with 40 points; New York A. C, 33; Newark A. C, 31; Boston A. A., 20. Newark A. C. took the National junior title...
...impulse transmitted to an electrical impulse and back into a light impulse. The transmitted to an electrical impulse and face of a picture, taking successive light impulses from it in lines as it went repeatedly across the film. At the receiving end, the same device reversed cast a varying ray of light on a photographic film as it went across its surface on adjoining lines...
...Homeric (White Star)-H. Grindell-Matthews, death ray inventor; J. Ogden Armour, Chicago meat packer...
...been interested in the rate of progress of food residues in their passage through the body. In making tests, patients have been required to swallow insoluble matter, such as small pieces of metal and charcoal or dye substances, which could be easily detected in the excretion. When the X-ray was discovered, barium sulphate, which is opaque to the Xray, was given, and the passage of the barium was observed through the fluoroscope. The giving of a large amount of indigestible material like barium with a small amount of milk or gruel, however, brings about conditions within the bowels which...