Ice Men Receive New Style Tips
ICE tongs and overalls will be distinctly out of style for the ice men of 1936, it was explained at the Chicago convention of the National Association of Ice Industries. Ice will be carried in leak proof canvas bags instead of with tongs, while the well dressed ice man will wear light trousers with shirt and service cap to match. A bow tie goes with the outfit.
I think we can trace the fall of the English language to this article. Yes kids, it all started with the word “collectingest “.
MAIL-ORDER SCIENCE
Even atom-bomb experts buy stuff from Ward’s
There is no connection between Montgomery Ward and Ward’s Natural Science Establishment at Rochester, N.Y. —except that they’re both in the mail-order business in the biggest sort of way.
The science museum with the fine, old-fashioned name operates in a big converted Rochester winery. As a mu- seum it’s unique because every one of its exhibits has a price tag; they’re all for sale. Ward’s “establishment” is to the world’s scientists what Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck are to the nation’s households.
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What means most to an Engineer?
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
GOOD SALARY
UNEXCELLED FACILITIES
SUBURBAN LIVINGA Career at RCA offers all Four!
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Prelude to Atomic Energy
They’re moving mountains in South Africa. With the aid of Amberlite® ion exchange resins, sparsely distributed uranium is being selectively extracted from clay residues of gold mining. In Canada, on the Colorado Plateau, and in many other parts of the world, Amberlite resins are also easing the uranium refiner’s job. Read the rest of this entry »
Is America the Naval Disarmament Goat
by JAY EARLE MILLER
When the big guns roar again for the next war, will America discover that her navy has been made a second-rate one by the terms of the disarmament treaty recently executed by the “Big Five” powers? Mr. Miller tells here just what the treaty means to national defense in terms of battleships, cruisers, and big guns.
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Ten Drugs to Avoid in Medicines
THERE are ten drugs often contained in patent headache medicines which are so dangerous that every purchaser should look carefully for them on the label before buying or using the remedy.
Three are opiates, including opium, morphine and heroin. All three may cause the drug habit and should only be used under direct supervision of a competent physician. Three more habit-forming drugs are cocaine, and the similar drugs, alpha eucaine and beta eucaine.
Chloroform, the anesthetic, cannabis indica or Indian hemp, an oriental drug, chloral hydrate, used in the infamous “knock-out drops”, and acetanild, which has a powerful depressant action on the heart and blood circulation, complete the list.
electronic’s strangest music maker
Music From Nowhere
By James Joseph
The theremin—is it “electronics gone haywire?’1 Picking music from air isn’t as easy as it looks.
MAYBE you were among the hundreds of TV skeptics who, doubting their own eyes, recently flooded a network’s switchboard with angry complaints about what appeared to be a man coaxing music out of thin air.
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Future Freighter 1968
DEPARTURES OF TOMORROW
This “Cargo Catamaran’* discharges loaded barges, plucks newly loaded ones from dockside… nests them high and weathertight to its central hull. Cargo and barges are rushed intact to destination, where unloading and reloading occur with minimum port time. Read the rest of this entry »
WHAT WE HAVE IN COMMON WITH DOGS
Scientists study canine behavior to see if it will explain our own Why are some dogs, like some humans, more active than others . . . brighter or duller . . . more dignified . . . more playful? Why, like humans, do they behave differently in groups: getting along well together or fighting . . . blindly following a leader … or keeping to themselves? Read the rest of this entry »
Shortest way to the Moon!
Engineers weighing the aerodynamic problems of space flight—or combustion problems of vehicle propulsion—are now solving many of the most complex mathematical computations in a few minutes, right in their laboratories.
This has been made possible by GEDA-—the Goodyear Electronic Differential Analyzer — versatile electronic analyzer that solves complex problems and saves engineering man hours. Read the rest of this entry »
Is There An Ether?
Aid for the Layman Who Attempts to Keep Abreast of the Changing Concepts of the Modern Physicist
By PAUL R. HEYL, Ph.D.
Physicist, United States Bureau of Standards
THE ether had its origin in human need and will last as long as human thinking requires it. Not always in the same form, perhaps, but unchanged in function.
The word “ether” comes down to us from the Greeks, but with their concept we have little interest. The “divine ether” to which Prometheus made his impassioned appeal was merely the rarefied upper air. The ether of physics dates from the time of Newton, who, like all the natural philosophers of his day, was greatly-puzzled by the fact of apparent action at a distance. Read the rest of this entry »
For comparison, when the modern descendant of these atom smashers, the Large Hadron Collider, comes fully online it will accelerate protons to 7 trillion electron volts. They will be travelling at 99.9999991% the speed of light and have an effective mass 7460.52 times what they have at rest. This is so fast that even though they will be making 11,000 orbits around the 27km ring per second, from the proton’s perspective time dilation will make each orbit seem to last about 2 minutes.
WATCH THESE ATOM-BUSTERS
The new synchrotrons open up prospects packed with thrills.
Anything that you see around you is made of matter. All matter is simply concentrated energy; when it is exploded, as in the blast of an atomic bomb, part of it becomes released energy. That was reasoned out by Einstein years ago; and the venerable scientist’s reasoning certainly has been borne out by the achievements of the nuclear physicists who produced the atomic bomb. Read the rest of this entry »
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