New Gadgets Highlighted In Science Service Bulletin
A collection of new devices includes a corn butterer that melts butter with corn heat, an eye shield for instrument flight training, a noise meter by the Army Signal Corps, a moisture tester for wood, a fountain-pen sized sheet dispenser, an envelope based life insurance vending device, a plastic spectacle holder, and a vinyl dampening bag for ironing prep. Readers can request Gadget Bulletin 548 by sending three cents to Science Service in Washington D C.
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Army Signal Corps
Science Service
N St
N. W
Washington, D. C
Hoaxes of Science: Russia and the Wright brothers claim
A Science Service piece analyzes Soviet claims of aviation firsts and other scientific "firsts" to promote a national myth. It cites Mozhaisky, Sikorsky, Cayley, Da Vinci, and others, arguing genuine progress crosses borders and that Russia’s hoaxes hinder global scientific progress.
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Soviet Russia
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
N. C
Alexander Mozhaisky
Russia
Paul Garber
Smithsonian Institution
George Cayley
George
Cillin
Telegraph
Science Service
A. C. Monahan
Monahan
Moscow News
America
P. A. Moltchanof
Soviet Union
Wall panel swings down to serve as table
A picture hung wall panel becomes a swinging table for small kitchens or dens. Five ply plywood 0 to 1 inch thick is advised with smooth surfaces for kitchens and ribbed or raised grain for other rooms. Panels measure 4 by 8 feet and can be trimmed to fit.
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Science Service
Plants versus the Arctic new botany from permafrost
Dr. Hugh Raup of Harvard described a new Arctic botany arising from frost action and soil instability. He told an Alaska Science Conference that permafrost alters succession patterns and challenges temperate erosion concepts, demanding revised vegetation theory for polar regions.
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Arctic
Alaska
Hugh Raup
Harvard University
Washington
Temperate
Sub- Arctic
Raup
Science Service
Nature Ramblings on the shrew its traits and cannibalism
The shrew, famed for Shakespearean references, is a small nervous mammal with a long nose. It burrows to feed and consumes insects snails earthworms and even field mice. Though tiny it can be ferocious enough to cannibalize its own kind in a single day.
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C. H. Merriam
Eye seeing shrews defy blind myth in nature notes
The article describes African elephant shrews using sight both awake and asleep. It notes behaviors of burrowers and forest dwellers and mentions a water shrew that dives and searches sand with its flexible snout, sometimes called the fish mouse. Ernest P. Walker is cited with a pet elephant shrew.
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National Zoo
Washington
Ernest P. Walker
Science Service
New Radioactive Calendar Rewrites Early North American History
Scientists Libby and Grosse outline a radiocarbon dating method enabling age estimates for remains up to 25 000 years old. The process links atmospheric 14C to living matter and shows half of 14C decays every 5568 years, with test samples requiring access to museum specimens and refined chemical separation.
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Millenia
Earth
Space
First Americans 10 000 Years Ago Atomic dating reshapes prehistory
A team led by Dr Willard F Libby and James R Arnold begins radiocarbon testing at the University of Chicago to calendar ancient Americas. New dates push human presence in North America back to about 10 000 years ago with early sites in Oregon Nevada and New York revealing older artifactual ages and complex cultural development.
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Kitty Hawk
N. C
Russia
Oregon
L. 8. Cressman
University of Oregon
Americas
Willard F. Libby
University of Chicago
A. V. Grosse
Houdry Process Corporation
W. A. Ritchie
New York
James R. Arnold
Institute of Nuclear Studies
University of Michigan
Western Hemisphere
Europe
American
Wisconsin
Ireland
England
Germany
America
Asia
Bering Strait
North America
Nevada
New York State
Kentucky
Boston
Boylston Street
Science Service
Civil Engineers Gather for 1952 Chicago Centennial Exposition
Civil engineers from many countries will attend a Chicago centennial exposition honoring the American Society of Civil Engineers founded in 1852. The article traces the evolution from military to civil engineering and notes the Army Corps of Engineers and the growth of allied engineering societies.
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Chicago
American Society of Civil Engineers
United States
Europe
West Point
Army Corps of Engineers
Society of Civil Engineers
Science Service
Alaska
Army
Frozen Flowers For Christmas
Scientists at Cornell University have developed a method to suspend cut flowers in near-freezing lockers to slow development. Blooms are cut at shipment stage, wrapped in cellophane, and stored to hold for up to a month. Peonies roses chrysanthemums garden lilies lilies of the valley carnations and gladiolas have been stored. orchids and bananas do not fare well in refrigeration.
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Cornell University
Cornell
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