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This demonstrates the principle of one possible way in which the descent may have been effected, the horizontal rod in this case projecting out from the vertical pole through the folds in the drape, and being disjoined and disposed of before the removal of the tent. But there are several...
Scientists would deny that Subbayah's feat violates any physical or biological principle. Fakirs can induce cataleptic rigidity in a limb or in the whole body; fakirs are often unbelievably strong. When the tent walls close behind him, all that Subbayah conceivably has to do is to induce rigor...
Dr. Stetson, distinguished astronomer and author of Earth, Radio and the Stars, mentioned the matter of decelerated radio waves last year to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At that time there was some discussion of whether the observations were dependable and, if so, what could be the...
United's system embodies no new principle, is merely a new combination of two well-known mechanisms - the robot pilot and the landing beam system designed in 1933 by the Bureau of Air Commerce. As the plane approaches the airport, it leaves the flying beam and picks up two...
In East Hartford, Conn, last week a two-year-old Vought Corsair biplane scuttled along a runway, picked up its tail and leaped aloft after an amazingly short take-off run of 50 yd. The pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar...