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¶ Reported was the successful making of x-ray moving pictures with a home camera and 16-mm. film. Drs. William Holmes Stewart, William Joseph Hoffman, and Francis Henshall Ghiselin developed the technique at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. The heart of the problem was to get a sharp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Rays at Cleveland | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

The process is really quite simple, though it has the record of ninetynine percent efficiency. An old brick vault, in the basement of the Fogg Museum, has been painted with white lead on the inside. The only outlet is a thick steel door. Once the objects are locked up inside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Prepared to Administer Lethal Death to Destructive Bug Burrowers | 11/26/1935 | See Source »

It was previously known, from dredged-up samples, that the surface of the Shelf was rock laid down by sedimentation in the Cretaceous era, 70,000,000 to 100,000,000 years ago. With no knowledge of how deep this layer was, it was thought that it thinned out eastward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Undersea Probe | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

The thickness of the lines seems to vary seasonally, as do the small dots which mark their intersections. This would seem to prove a waxing and waning vegetation along their banks which flourishes and dier as the polar ice caps melt and collect again, which occurs every year.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASTRONOMERS PROVE MARS IS UNINHABITED | 10/31/1935 | See Source »

3) Conclusive evidence that coal and other minerals exist in Antarctica; that the entire Antarctic Ice Barrier is not afloat, as was commonly supposed, but is partly grounded; that the ice at the South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hero's Return | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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