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William Beebe, well known traveler, scientist and lecturer, will speak on "Beneath Southern Seas" in Symphony Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock...
Thus man's experimenting swerves back over old trails. More than 400 years ago Leonardo da Vinci, great artist, scientist, wished to fly. That seems to have been the one constant wish throughout his long & lively life-to fly. He knew of course nothing about modern motive power, although he did make some contraptions to operate by steam force. Therefore it was directly to birds that he turned discerning thoughts. He studied the mechanics of their flights, the comparative anatomy of their bodies. He built flying machines and, superb and practical engineer, he knew before he tried them that...
Steel pens, made to slip into a holder, were a 19th Century development, although some experiments occured before. Scientist Joseph Priestly, in 1780, designed and ordered made a steel pen that resembled a quill, just as anciently the quill imitated the reed. Birmingham, Eng., became the home of the steel pen; it continues so. In the U. S. Camden, N. J., where the Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co. was established in 1860, has been the great center...
...Hubbard, American scientist, author, and a former guard on the Harvard football team, is conducting an expedition to the bush of northern Rhodesia to study the psychology of wild animals found there. He will try to establish a scientific research station there, and is planning to take cinematography pictures and to make gramophone records of the wild animals there...
Last Sunday's talk by Dr. Michael Pupin, noted scientist of Columbia University, has to be omitted owing to Professor Pupin's illness