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Last week despatches from London announced that Dr. Hartman had a perfected "diving bell," was off with seven fellow-scientists and a secretary, for test drops to the bottom of the Mediterranean. The Krupp works at Essen had built him a steel cylinder guaranteed to resist sea-pressure at 15,000 ft., equipped with magnifying submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable...
...taken his instrument East, dreaming of finding oil close on the edge of a vast industrial section. He had convinced two Rhode Island worsted merchants of the instrument's efficacy, had induced them to spend (up to last week) some $400,000, leasing 12,000 acres and sinking a test drill. All this in secret. Said one of the promoters: "This is just our little baby. We don't want people to laugh...
...subjects went about their business as usual. In the evening they were sent to the theatre, after which their blood-pressure was examined. On the afternoon of the second day they went to the country and watched a youngsters' ball game. Then a blood test was taken. Some drove dummy automobiles. Professors sat beside them, observed how they did it. Little circles now began to appear under the eyes of the robust specimens. For in the course of these experiments they had never once gone to sleep. That was the experiment...
...Diego, made by Lieutenants Kelly and Macready in 1923 ?curled their lips. To that hazardous leap the ta,me to-and-froing of the Frenchman seemed like a little boys' game. Not so is the purpose for which this game was undertaken?a training test for a direct flight from Paris to New York. Landry, Drouhin, will attempt...
...sliding theory is not fantastic and merits testing. Last week, Major William Bowie, chief of the U. S. Geodetic Survey, indicated how the test could and probably would be made...