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...research problems in which they will engage include the X-ray-quantum theory; the Zeeman effect on fluorine; insulation with special relation to absorption; structure of steel with effect of carbon concentrated...
Harry Grindell Matthews (TIME, June 2) plunged deeper into an orgy of mysterious dickering with prospective purchasers of his invisible "death ray." Refusing an offer of ?1,000 from the British Air Ministry for a two-weeks option, provided he would test his machine on a government motor instead of on a motorcycle engine in his own laboratory, Matthews melodramatically seized an airplane and hopped off for Paris just as process servers reached the field to serve a writ of injunction on him from Edgar Grubbins, A. H. Daley, and J. S. P. Sanborne, English capitalists who claim to hold...
...Paris, Mathews secluded himself and consulted attorneys, but wild | rumors were afloat-that Royer, the Lyons electrical magnate, was acting for the French Government; that British representatives followed Matthews to renew their offers and prevent the escape of the "ray" from England; that Ambassador Herrick had invited Matthews to lunch at the American Embassy, and that U. S. naval attaches were investigating unofficially. The Navy Department denied any offer. The British Under Secretary for the Air Ministry, interpellated in the House of Commons, said Matthews had not demonstrated his claims to their satisfaction, and that the phenomenon of stopping...
...same rate of speed. The light beam travels in a continuous line over the picture, until it reaches the opposite side. In the center of the cylinder is a "photoelectric cell," consisting of a rod of potassium in a vacuum tube. It is so sensitive to light that any ray falling on it causes the electrons to fly from its surface, generating an electric current. As the cylinder revolves, the point of light passes through the transparent film and falls upon the potassium. In the dark parts of the picture less light gets through, and in the light parts, more...
...announcement of H. Grindell Mathews, English inventor, of his "diabolical rays" for destroying ships or airplanes at long distance aroused a chorus of skeptics on both sides of the water. Mr. Mathews has not yet seen fit to report his researches to the Royal Society or other scientific bodies, and he has yet to produce the effects he claims outside of a small laboratory. He has been offered the use of the well-equipped laboratories of the Rhone Engineering Works, Lyons, by M. Eugene Royer, their director, himself an inventor. He also has French financial backing, but he declares...