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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1936
Page
7
Boston firm Land Wheelwright Laboratories announces Polaroid a new optical material that polarizes light to reduce headlight glare and enable three dimensional cinema. The material also promises sun glasses privacy one way glass and color changing building exteriors with polarized light technology.
Detroit engineers unveil bellows type air springs at the Society of Automotive Engineers meeting. R W Brown reports rubberized fabric can endure 8,000,000 two inch deformations at 25 percent overload. A pendulum device inside the spring governs valve action to control outer air pressure on curves.
Washington reports a discovery of extreme cranial modification among ancient Indian remains. Infant head binding in boards aimed to produce tall pointed skulls, with one skull near Toches, Louisiana described as bishop mitre shaped by Winslow M. Walker of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
A historical explainer notes that accidental electrocution can be survivable with medical resuscitation, while legal execution by electricity destroys key brain centers and yields certain death. It details brain hemorrhage, vessel damage, and tissue inflation, with high voltages and amperage causing instant unconsciousness and death, and mentions artificial respiration as the remedy for accidental shocks.
Providence reports a study by Dr. Hans Kurath of Brown University showing New England speech fading its distinctive broad A sound. The four year survey covered 225 communities from Cape Cod to Maine and Connecticut with phonograph records and notes. coastal areas preserve many phrases while western New England shifts to western pronunciation.
London reports two English researchers Fraser and Nichols of the Wool Industry Research Association say feeding cornstarch to sheep improves wool and meat. They claim wool quantity and quality rise as individual fibers grow heavier and longer while meat production speeds up.
Create a decorative peacock filet crochet chair back set and scarf ends with easy durable string. Includes directions charts illustrations stitches needed and materials. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York NY.
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