New Gadgets and Home Innovations Featured in Bulletin
A collection of new devices includes an air bulb car fender warning system, heat resistant wood tables with aluminum veneer, Cardmaster card-drawing gadget for gin, a phonograph cleaning attachment, a lighted electric mixer, a miniature beating system for garages, a baby play rack, and sawdust wallboard from Polytechnic Institute. Readers can request Gadget Bulletin 361 by sending a three cent stamp to Science Service in Washington.
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Golden Chimes By Science Service
A pretty flower to find in moist May woods is the bell wort. Its six-petaled golden flowers droop and a playful name comes from an anatomical allusion to the uvula. The piece notes a humorous link to snoring when the mouth is open during sleep.
Aluminum From Clay Breakthrough by National Bureau Scientists
Dr. James I. Hoffman and a small team at the National Bureau of Standards built a pilot plant in an abandoned garage to extract aluminum from clay. They used a hydrochloric method with a chalky white clay, overcoming skepticism that energy costs would make the scheme unworkable.
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James I. Hoffman
National Bureau of Standards
War Department
Hoffman
Dr. Hoffman
Herreshoff
Bureau
Herbert Lowey
Robert “T. Leslie
George Derbyshire
Willard Hubbard
Wilmert A. Hemminger
Lewis J. Clark
H. J. Caul
American Dental Association
Seaboard
Dr. Connolly and Associates
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Dr. Wells
Bureau of Standards
Monolith Portland Cement Co
Wyoming
Ancor Corporation
St. George
S. C
Alcoa
Anaconda Copper, Co
Bayer
TVA
Wilson Dam
Ala
Chemical Construction Co
Pacific
Nothwest
United States
Herreschaft
Fremont Davis
Science Service
Frogs and lizards inhabit ant plants on Papua coast
The report chronicles Wilfred T. Neill's find of twenty three frogs in a single ant plant near Waigani Swamp seven miles north of Port Moresby and notes other plants sheltering lizards eggs and many frogs.
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Wilfred T. Neill
Georgia
Richmond Academy
Waigani
Port Moresby
Papua
Neill
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Science Service
Reconvert Old Fountain Pens With Ball Pen Refills
Inexpensive ball pen refills can convert ordinary fountain pens into ball point pens and serve as a neat stylus for recording data on drums. Test various refills for fit, trim with tape or sandpaper if needed, and explore uses from charting plant growth to long term tracing.
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Vou Pyle
Phonograph
Science Service
Regrouping Gangs Fuels Nationwide Crime Wave Says Hoover
The piece cites J. Edgar Hoover blaming wartime conditions for a decade high crime wave. It cites lack of trained personnel and juvenile delinquents advancing to serious crimes as key factors. It notes a rise in arrests and fingerprinting data from 1946, with many repeat offenders and a shift in offenses from Japanese a to other crimes.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ately
Copuriohe
Science Service
Tarnish Protects Copper But Dulls Its Beauty
Tarnish forms copper oxide on the surface and halts further oxidation. Rubbing it off removes some copper with it. A fast cleaning method from U S Department of Agriculture specialists uses an acid mixture to dissolve tarnish and scour the metal, then requires thorough washing.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
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