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Giant Molecules: the Machinery of Inheritance
How Genetics, Youthful Science of Inheritance, Has produced Billions of Dollars of Wealth . . . Big Things that Boil Down to the Minutest Controls.
By BARCLAY MOON NEWMAN
THE remarkable discoveries in the youthful science of inheritance, genetics, have been applied to animal and plant breeding throughout civilization—and with almost incredible success. As regards the United States alone, during the past 30 years, even a conservative estimate of the cash value of the practical application of genetic findings would have to run into billions of dollars. Far greater yields of grains, fruits, vegetables, and cotton; far higher quality both in domestic plants and domestic animals of every description and their products, including milk, meat, eggs, and wool; increased and sometimes perfect resistance to disease; entirely new commercial varieties; and the lessening of the chances of famine: all these are in this story of science. Read the rest of this entry »
Be sure to check out Part 1.
Antique Mechanical Computers Part 2: 18th and 19th Century Mechanical Marvels
Dr James M Williams
58 Trumbull St
New Haven CT 06510In “Part 1: Early Automata,” page 48, July 1978 BYTE, we traced the development of antique mechanical computers up to the middle of the 18th century, and described such devices as Vaucanson’s mechanical duck. Now we continue with a discussion of talking, writing and music playing automata of the 18th and 19th centuries. (The discussion is not meant to be an exhaustive one, of course, since that would be beyond the scope of this series.) Later Automata.
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Unique Road Sign is probably a forerunner of many other similar ones to come. Here, it keeps -the road clear as a Navy transport helicopter comes in for a landing at the Piasecki Heliport at. Morton, Pa.
Most credit cards are given away. You must apply for The New Money.
Last year, more than 15 million credit cards were given away.
We have never given away the American Express Card— The New Money. ”
On the contrary You must fill out an application and, if you qualify, you must pay an annual fee of $15. Even success-full men like New York Yankee baseball President Michael Burke did it.
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World’s First Jet Air Liner Makes Flight Debut
Britain jumped the global gun in the race for commercial air supremacy with a recent announcement that its giant de Haviland Comet, first all-jet air liner, had made successful flights. After nearly three years under construction in secrecy, the sleek, sweptback-wing craft has been unveiled. Read the rest of this entry »
On the FIRE – A PREVIEW OF TOMORROW IN SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
• In the field of detecting and measuring atomic radiation there’s a new dual-purpose Dosage-Rate Survey Meter (see illustrations above) designed by scientists of the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. When held upright, this 1/2 lb., pocket-size instrument gives a direct reading of radiation intensity in a range of 0-100 milliroentgens per hour (the lower range encountered in laboratory health surveys where radioactive materials are used). Read the rest of this entry »
This is a pretty weird ad.
Suggested for mature audiences.
Sony/Superscope tape recorders
A tape recorder is a bridge that spans the generation gap. It can make oldsters feel young again. Or bring the wisdom of the ages to the young.
A tape recorder is hearing your newborn grandchild before you’ve ever seen him. Or letting you talk to his parents.
It is a physicist formulating an exciting new theory. A salesman making his report. The electrifying sound of today’s top rock music group. Or the brilliant harmonics of yesterday’s great symphonic orchestra.
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Newest Devices for the General Use
Projector for Artists
• USED in a dark room, this simple picture projector gives a colored image which can be traced by even beginners, and does not require the blinking necessary with a “camera lucida.” It is inexpensive.
Rotating Clock
• NOVEL, and ingenious, this drum-dial clock, which is easy to read, will grace a desk or table top.
Improved Can Opener
• THIS cuts out the top as a clean round disc, and makes emptying the can more easy. The new model has a suction cup which neatly lifts the resulting sharp-edged disc. Extra leverage of handle makes cutting easier.
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Portland hipsters froze themselves in blocks of ice way before it was cool.
Portlander Lives Frozen in Ice Block for Thirty Minutes
A SCIENTIFIC experiment that bewildered thousands was performed when A. Moro, of Portland, Ore., allowed himself to be frozen up in a solid cake of ice for thirty minutes at an annual newspapermen’s midnight frolic held recently in Portland. At the end of the half hour of imprisonment, the ice block was chopped open and Mr. Moro emerged bright and healthy, a little chilled, perhaps, but otherwise unaffected.
Mr. Moro is enabled to accomplish this remarkable feat because of his ability to get along with a minimum supply of oxygen for an unusual length of time. In performing the stunt, he crawls into the cavity formed in two blocks of ice as shown at right. Ice is then melted around him to inclose his body in the cavity.
Well, that sounds unpleasant.
Hunger Measured by Balloons
SWALLOWING small rubber balloons after fasting from 15 to 44 hours, and then causing intense pangs of hunger by taking an insulin injection, sound like making a martyr of oneself for science. Yet this is the program submitted to by a number of men in the laboratory of Prof. A. J. Carlson and Dr. P. Quigley, of the University of Chicago. The insubstantial meal of balloons was taken so that the movements of the digestive tract might be measured. The rubber bubbles were connected with the outside world by means of slender tubes, to which instruments were attached for the measurement of changes of pressure in the balloons caused by contractions of the stomach and intestine.
MECHANICAL ARTISTS BLOW GLASS BOTTLES
Age-old art of lung-powered glass blowing gives way to puffing, snorting robots of almost human intelligence, capable of turning out 115 bottles a minute.
by Harold L. Zimmer
HAVE you ever picked up a soda or medicine bottle and wondered just how anything so perfect could be turned out in such huge numbers? Perhaps through your mind has flashed the heroic picture of countless, ruddy-cheeked men, industriously blowing away on long tubes, the respective ends of which are covered with round, glowing balls of hot glass.
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