This Week in the Sky from Hayden Planetarium
The moon is new at 2 22 P M EST on Tuesday June 24 and will appear as a crescent in the west afterward. It will conjoin Mercury at 12 54 P M Wednesday and Venus at 5 50 A M Thursday. Summer constellations rise with Scorpius and Vega prominent by nine o clock in the southeast and northeast respectively, Antares the bright red star in Scorpius stands among the largest. Sirius remains the brightest star seen in winter.
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Milestones of Science and Sports Innovations
An invisible light beam in sports replaces the bar in pole vaulting and high jumping to record heights. Sulfaguanidine joins sulfa drugs as a general antibiotic. A new black-out plant at Wilson Dam in Alabama aims to produce synthetic ammonia for explosives. A JAMA report notes the first suspected case of osteomyelitis of the femur head caused by bacterium necrophorum. Lemon juice is shown to reduce pulse rate and lower blood pressure in a California study.
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Wilson Dam
Sheffield
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Journal of the American Medical Association
Lawrence E. Dedrick
Anthony J. Lorenz
California
Television poised to bring World Series and Derby home
M O Chenoweth notes television could soon deliver major events to homes or theater screens. New York tests at the New Yorker Theater show 15 by 20 foot screens broadcasting prize fights, baseball, and horse races, hinting at a nationwide network of televised theaters with potential access to thousands of events and audiences.
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New York
United States
New Yorker
Large screen theater TV to broadcast national events
The article endorses large-screen theater broadcasts of national events as a milestone in electronic entertainment. It notes early telecast flaws such as image clarity and fading, compares TV with evolving radio and cinema, and describes New York theater setup with a 60-foot throw, 16 loudspeakers, a kinescope projector, and coaxial cable transmission as a future, practical network option.
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Ences
New York
Balcory Ede
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