Man’s New Sense Explored in Animal Navigation Study
Researchers probe beyond ordinary senses to explain feats like migratory birds’ northward journeys, salmon’s river routes, and pets returning home. The article discusses a proposed occult or magnetic sense guiding behavior, with notes on how perception may lead to logical conclusions and how misfired signals could affect thinking.
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Columbia University
New York City
Frederick Tilney
Tilney
Practising Airplane Bombing With the Camera Obscura
The article explains a U S Army Air Corps training method using a camera obscura to simulate bombing. A mirrored lens maps an airspace onto a paper sheet where an operator tracks an aircraft’s arc to judge bombing accuracy. It links the technique to photography’s origins and discusses the “ninth sense” proposed by Dr. Frederick Tilney, exploring magnetism and navigation in animals with rat and mouse maze experiments.
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Camera Obscura
Mapping Board
United States Army Air Corps
Tilney
Silk Purse From Sows Ears Achieved By Chemistry
A Western chemist Dr Arthur Little saw glue made from slaughterhouse waste and proved a silk fabric could be produced from sow ears. After trials in dyeing and weaving, a purse was finally created with separate compartments for gold and silver.
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Europe
Arthur Little
Dr. Little
London
Weightless bedclothes strap invention aids warmth
Albert H. Borland of Gebo Wyoming invents a strap for bed bars with a reinforced middle hook that raises sheets and blankets from the sleeper. The device keeps covers off the body to reduce contact in warm weather or for medical cases while allowing heavy coverings in cold weather.
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Albert H. Borland
Gebo
Wyo
Invention of a New COASTER for Children by John C Moore Jr
Caldwell New Jersey inventor John C Moore Jr presents a child coaster with two wheels on a fork and a rearward curved handle. An adjustable length handle via cross pins fits various statures. A rocking pedal above the wheels adds balance challenge and sport for riders.
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John C. Moore, Jr
Caldwell
N. J
Desert Lakes Spawn Cheap Chemical Salts From Dry Basins
The article explains that desert regions once held water and rich vegetation. Now dry lakes like Searles Lake in California host deep beds of mineral salts. Salts accumulate as streams bring minerals, then evaporation yields market ready chemicals such as carbonate and sulphate of soda, chlorate of potash, and borax.
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United States
Searles Lake
California
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