Word: spectrographic
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...actual throwing that Dr. Bainbridge did last week was carried on in a much smaller theatre, with much smaller projectiles. His theatre was a huge mass-spectrograph; his projectiles, atoms. What earned him scientific plaudits rather than police treatment was the fact that his instrument was bigger than anything that had previously been developed in the U. S., could therefore compute relative weights which differed by less than one-trillionth of one-trillionth of an ounce...
...Them" referred particularly to Professor Jacob Papish of Cornell, who last autumn recognized eka-cesium with the x-ray spectrograph. With an x-ray spectrograph Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois discovered the third last unknown element, No. 61, of the Periodic Table, which he named illinium (TIME, March...
Could a political spectrograph of the U. S. be made to help the man-in-the-street classify his more prominent fellow citizens as to political color, from the "true Blue" of J. P. Morgan to the bright "Red" of the late Sacco & Vanzetti...
Perhaps it could. Perhaps such a spectrograph would contain elements as follows...