Audio of Atoms Broadcast Noted by GE Engineer
General Electric engineer L A Hawkins explains and demonstrates audible atom explosions using a Geiger counter as a radio audience hears ticking from uranium and radium samples. He notes atoms explode like Vesuvius and that electrons released by heat can be controlled in vacuum tubes, enabling radio broadcasting.
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Vesuvius
Etna
L. A. Hawkins
General Electric Company
Mr. Hawkins
Atom
Hawkins
Georger
Women Ill More Often Yet Live Longer Says Public Health Study
The Public Health Service report shows women have higher sickness rates than men after age ten, with respiratory, digestive, nervous, kidney and heart diseases more common in women. Infancy and early childhood are most prone to illness, while ages 20 to 25 are healthiest before illness rises again in old age.
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United States Public Health Service
Hugh 3. Cumming
Cumming
Public Health Service
United States
Tree House Dwellings Across Ancient Habits
A description of tree house living from ancient to modern times notes that early humans may have used forest nests and temporary tree homes for safety. The Philippines and New Guinea examples show ground huts and elevated rooms with thatched roofs, bamboo ladders, and braced structures designed to resist wind and attacks.
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Panying
New Guinea
Tropics
Water Found Beneath Driest Desert Transforms Land
In the Coachella district within the Salton Sink of southern California, drilling for oil struck water at sixty feet. The find brought irrigation and converted wide areas into gardens, revealing water beneath the desert and spurring migration away from thirst.
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Coachella
Salton Sink
California
Why a Baby's First Shoes Should Be Like a Paper Bag
The article summarizes Dr. John D. Adams view on infant footwear. It advises starting with soft, shape minimal shoes like a paper bag, then gradually increasing width, heel depth, and sole rigidity as the child ages from two to five years. It warns against vanity in shoe choice and emphasizes functional foot development.
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John D. Adams
Scientific American
Aviators Face New Sickness From Speed and Flight
A monograph from the International Labor Office warns that a new aviation illness, the aviators sickness, emerges from rapid air travel. Pilots may suffer emotional disturbance, emptiness, visions of death, and rapid descent symptoms including breathing changes, palpitations, constriction, hearing loss, buzzing, neuralgias, and incoordination. After landing, symptoms may intensify before fading within a day.
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International Labor Office
Inventors Patents on Cap Remover and Braiding Attachment
Edward R. Jones of Easton Pennsylvania patents a cap remover for electric light sockets that grips the socket to lift tightly fitted caps without damage. Nathaniel A. Rankin of Los Angeles patents a braiding attachment for sewing machines that feeds braid to the needle and keeps the pattern in view during operation.
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Edward R. Jones
Easton
Nathaniel A. Rankin
Los Angeles
Talking motion picture slot machine debut by Belgan
Robert C. Belgan of Pittsfield Massachusetts invents a daylight proof box like talking and singing film projector. Five minutes show time. Coin dispensed for home use. Device turns on with a switch. Red and blue footlights flash as a curtain rises revealing a glass screen. Following a pause the lights dim and the film appears.
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Robert C. Belgan
Pittsfield
Massachusetts
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