New Gadgets And Kits For Home And Industry
A variety of new items include a decoration kit with paints and tumblers, an oven preheater for car engines, a chill chili flavoring for frankfurters, a high suction vacuum cleaner, a Christmas craft kit, a rustproof fastener, an adjustable desk tray, a wool fiber brush, and a self locking staple for fencing. Request Gadget Bulletin 49 from Science Service for more details.
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Air Survey Counts Beaver Caches to Estimate State Population
North Dakota biologists from the Game and Fish Department conduct aerial counts of beaver food caches after the first freeze to estimate beaver numbers across drainage systems. The survey identifies overpopulated streams and informs trapping permits and potential transplants, with ground checks upon permit issuance.
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North Dakota Game and Fish Department
Science Service
Hoaxes of Science Fossils Trick German Professor
In Würzburg, Prof. Johan Beringer, a defender of Genesis based geology, was hoaxed by students who planted fake fossils and Hebraic inscriptions. He published a book defending his finds, but the fossils were revealed as fakes, driving him to poverty and ruin before a second edition appeared through his son.
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Europe
Middle East
Avicenna
Leonardo da Vinci
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Young Beringer
Science Service
You Can Do It Reshape and Fireproof Your Xmas Tree
Practical tips from 1950 Science Service on shaping scraggly evergreens into well formed trees. Instructions cover trimming, mounting in a water filled base, bridging bare spots with branches, and using a nine to one water glass mixture for fireproofing. Also warns to inspect lights for fraying and replace damaged strings.
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Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Science Service
History and types of Christmas trees in America
The article explains how Christmas trees came from the North and became a Yuletide staple in America. It describes spruce as the favorite tree, notes spruce needles are sharp and cones hang downward, contrasts fir as a softer relative with upward cones, and explains pine needles grow in bundles, with White Pine having five needles per bunch. It ends mid description of Arborvitae.
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Yuletide
Bethlehem
Rhine
Danube
America
The Red Cedar and the Christmas Tree Trade
Science Service explains how red cedar leaves form scales on twigs and describes the vast seasonal business moving millions of trees from mountains to cities between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. It notes selective cutting can aid forests and contrasts cut trees with tub planted spruces or firs used as perennial indoor trees by families.
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Science Service
Cardboard Santa Humidity Indicator Kit Story
A 1950 Science Service feature explains simple home humidity indicators. It describes using blond hair and a Santa Claus themed cardboard figure to show moisture levels, plus color change aids like cobalt chloride and silica gel. A 50 cent kit offer for the drawings, hair, eyelet, and moisture granules is advertised.
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Santa
Giant Atom Smasher Dwarfs Technicians
A 10 000 ton bevatron magnet rises on the Berkeley campus hill as construction advances toward completion in 1952. Protons will reach six billion electron volts after acceleration in a chamber, greatly surpassing early cyclotron energy. A parallel cosmotron is under construction at Brookhaven Laboratory on Long Island.
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Atomic Energy Commission
University of California Radiation Laboratory
Ernest O. Lawrence
National Academy of Sciences
Lawrence
Berkeley
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Rence
Earth
Moon
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AEC Brookhaven Laboratory
Long Island
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Giant Atom Smasher Dwarfs
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