New Gadgets And Home Devices Featured In Bulletin
A compilation of new home and industry gadgets includes a papaya meat tenderizer tea bag style that tenderizes 40 pounds of meat for under a cent per pound, a bicycle headlight with eight lenses, vinylite tablecloths in seven colors, an electric eye street lighting recorder on a vehicle, a plastic-handled shrimp shell remover, asbestos blended cover fabrics for presses, an improved hectograph capable of 100 copies, and glass reinforced paper for packaging and haystack covers. Readers can request Gadget Bulletin 528 from Science Service in Washington D. C.
Fish albumen factory yields egg white from cod waste
Two Norwegian firms perfect a process to extract pure albumen from fish waste. Cod enters one end and a dry white powder exits the other, producing 3 to 4 pints of cream per ounce of powder. Used in baking, ice cream, puddings, cosmetics, soap and more.
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Leaves as fingerprints of trees reveal plant life secrets
In a summertime science feature Marjorie Van de Water explains that leaves are unique like fingerprints, outlines how chlorophyll fuels growth, describes water loss and local cooling, and provides practical steps for collecting pressing and mounting specimens plus leaf prints as a supplemental activity.
You Can Do It Make Desk From 2-Drawer Files and Board
Simple build converts four single-drawer file units into a compact desk. Use a 30 by 60 inch plywood top, elevate as needed with wood blocks, secure with cleats, and finish with wax or linoleum for easy cleaning. Storage and disassembly guidance included for shifting or stacking.
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Nature Ramblings on Aesop Fable Ant and Grasshopper
The piece argues Aesop was a moralist not a naturalist and suggests grasshoppers are misread as idle. It notes grasshoppers produce rhythmic sounds by rubbing wings and hind legs, while females cannot fiddle. Katydids and crickets are more musical and their songs have been notated. The grasshopper’s role is to eat and reproduce, not merely entertain.
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Aesop
Grasshoppers as Food and Historical Notes
The passage describes locusts and grasshoppers as herbivorous insects that can swarm and devastate crops. It notes biblical plagues, human consumption in various cultures, and a 19th century naturalist who found roasted grasshoppers nutritious and lobster-like in flavor.
Hand Methods in U S Mines Give Way to Giant Machines
The rise of continuous mining machines replaces hand labor in coal mines. Joy and Colmol continuous miners, developed by Joy Manufacturing and Jeffrey Manufacturing, can handle thin to thick seams and reduce crew sizes. The Mining Development Committee led by Ger ald von Stroh works to cut costs and improve safety by using non explosive powered equipment.
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U. S. Bureau of Mines
Colmos
U. S. Mines
Joy Continuous
Joy Manufacturing Company
Pittsburgh, Pa
Colmol
Jeffrey Manufacturing Company
Columbus
Ohio
Gerald von Stroh
Huntington
W. Va
England
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Gulf Stream Meanders Revealed by Loran Measurements
A Woods Hole study using Loran navigation shows the Gulf Stream shifts between Cape Hatteras and Nova Scotia, with positions at three times and the average path. It reveals currents of four to five knots, faster than earlier estimates. The chart was prepared by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1950.
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Gulf Stream
Cape Hatteras
Nova Scotia
Woods Hole
Mass
Oceanographic Institution
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Imperial Boards Hide Faulty Art Work on Byzantine Coins
Yale historian Prof. Alfred R. Bellinger analyzes Byzantine coinage from Justinian II onward. He notes a shift from skilled portraiture to crude stylized designs used to conceal weak die work, marking a transition to medieval coin art and an impersonal emperor motif.
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Constantinople
Justinian II
Alfred R. Bellinger
Yale University
Justinian I
Heraclius
Constans II
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