Salvaging Sunken Ships with Submarine Induction Balance
An article outlines treasure salvaging from sunken ships and emphasizes the challenge of locating wrecks. It explains electrical locating methods using induction balance devices aboard submarines, detailing construction, operation, depth handling, and cost under $100.
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H. Gernsbeck
Electrical Experimenter
Mr. Gernsbeck
Hughes
Motoring as Exercise Gains Support From Doctor
Dr Henry Smith Williams argues automobiling offers physical mental and volitional benefits. He notes open air winds oxygen digestion and elimination improve with 40 to 50 miles of driving, claiming arm chest and abdominal muscles gain calisthenics benefiting arteries heart and digestion.
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Henry Smith Williams
Hunger and Thirst Origins in Local Bodily Signals
The article discusses hunger and thirst as local sensations linked to stomach contractions and drying mucosa respectively. It cites W B Cannon and A J Carlson noting hunger arises from gastric signals while thirst follows mouth and pharynx dryness due to air passage or low saliva. Cannon emphasizes saliva decline signals bodily fluid need.
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W. B. Cannon
Harvard
A. J. Carlson
Chicago
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Schiff
Cannon
Snail Walks Razor Edge Trick Demonstrated by Scientist
Dr. Edward F. Bigelow explains in Popular Science Monthly how snails traverse razor edges without injury by waiting and choosing a path. Observers note the snail clings along the blade with its walking surface and extends its head over the edge to cross safely.
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Edward F. Bigelow
Popular Science Monthly
Dawn of Mind insights on a newborn’s first impressions
Margaret Drummond argues the newborn begins with dim, tentative consciousness. Sensations of hunger, touch, and basic proprioception form the early mental landscape, while sight, sound, taste, and smell develop slowly and in relation to one another.
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Margaret Drummond
Edinburgh
New Super-Wheat for Food Value Disclosed by Burbank
Burbank, after eleven years of work, claims a super-wheat with unusually high gluten content and hardy growth from Labrador to Patagonia. The winter wheat closely resembles Marquis, yet with large white kernels and early maturity. In tests against 68 world wheats it yielded well and baked bread with good color texture and taste, stressing gluten’s food value and nitrogen content.
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Burbank
California
Labrador
Patagonia
Popular Science Monthly
Canopus Giant of Suns From 19th Century Calculation
Canopus ANOPUS described as 49 000 times the sun’s brightness, 134 times solar diameter, 18 000 times larger in surface, and 2 420 000 times in volume. Distance estimated at 489 light years. A second authority notes if Canopus were at Earth’s solar distance it would occupy 0.85 of Venus orbit and span 70 degrees, making life impossible.
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Anopus
Solar System
Venus
Earth
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