New Machines And Gadgets Debut In Brief Gadget Bulletin
A catalog of recent inventions features an enlarged vacuum cleaner with a three horsepower motor for streets, transparent handbag contents inspection, airplane de icing by button, glow in the dark adhesive sheet, hinged long mirrors for hard to reach areas, a combined sun visor and radio aerial, and a transparent plastic draftsman triangle with a ten inch rule. For more info send a three cent stamp to Science Service for Gadget Bulletin 190.
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Cattail Down Goes to War for Insulation and Cushions
A Chicago scientist Dr C Burgess has shown cattail down can insulate and act as a waterproof buoyant material. The military has adopted it for light weight airplane wall insulation and motor launch cushion stuffing. Future uses include toys quilts mitts and dish holders under the trade name Typha.
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Burgess
Culture of Prehistoric Race Traced by Statues and Temples
Archaeologist Dr. Gregorio Hernandez de Alba traces a 2 000 year migration of a San Agustin culture from Colombia south into Bolivia Peru and Ecuador, revealing temples statues and baths. He argues warfare uprooted peoples spreading art tech and religion until Spanish conquest halted the cycle.
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Yellow appearance of red blood cells puzzles zoologist
Dr John R Baker of Oxford notes in Nature that red blood corpuscles seen under white light appear yellow not red or pink. He seeks explanations from zoologists physiologists and color vision experts, hoping to clarify why pale red objects look yellow in microscopic observations and its bearing on chemical tests.
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Junior Scientists Eat Lighted Apple Candle Trick
A science feature describes a candle eating prank using an apple cylinder as the candle and a nut meat wick. The setup includes shaping apple segments, using a Brazil nut, lighting a real candle for comparison, and blowing out the flame before swallowing the apple candle. The piece explains the burnt nut oil explains the combustion.
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Chinese students turn to applied sciences amid equipment shortages
Facing scarce lab instruments in colleges and universities, professors and students improvise with kerosene tins as sinks and sterilizers, old fans as stirrers, paraffined cans as beakers, and chopsticks as crucible tongs, reflecting ingenuity born of necessity in new China.
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Practical hints for redecorating moldings and wall repairs
Home remodeling guidance on removing and repositioning moldings and repairing plaster. Steps cover prying loose trim, handling nails, refilling holes with spackle or plaster, and finishing edges to prevent obvious paint lines. Tips emphasize non shrinking fillers and careful smoothing.
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Home Repair Tips and Chinese Student Migration Overview
The article details plastering and window repairs including soaking calci mined ceilings, spackle fillings, and molding replacements. It then shifts to wartime Chinese colleges with 75 percent refugees, westward moves to Sian, Chengtu, Kunming, and mass student evacuations amid Japan invasion.
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