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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1948
Page
6
A list of new items includes roll away cabinet doors in interlocking plastic, a waterproof car washer mitten, a home planetarium projector, an oil cleaning brushing machine for clutch plates, non magnetic ball bearings, colored school whiteboards, a returning plastic toy, and beaded cellulose acetate ropes. Science Service invites readers to request Gadget Bulletin 399.
The piece notes groundhogs and hedgehogs as substitute weather prophets for Candlemas Day and six weeks after. It explains groundhogs often sleep through winter forecasts, emerging mid March, while hedgehogs in the Old World offered a similar but unreliable forecast. Colonists adopted the groundhog due to hedgehogs’ absence in America.
A 1948 Science Service overview notes inland dug ditches offer cheaper freight than rail or road and that canals remain vital for long inland shipping. It surveys major world canals Suez Panama and potential new routes through Palestine, Colombia, or Nicaragua, plus historical precedents and future options.
Junior scientists explore coupled oscillators using two quart bottles as weights hung from chairs or a yardstick. By starting one pendulum and varying coupling with string or rubber bands, energy transfers between pendulums and can even excite vertical vibrations. A feather can damp the transfer, illustrating sensitivity to contact.
Rutgers University Dr John W Riley Jr reports public confusion over alcohol effects based on a quiz. The study shows many see no difference between alcoholics and occasional drinkers while over half doubt alcohol has true medicinal value and some believe it speeds reaction time.
Dr. Richard J. Lougee of Clark University reported a paleo watercourse in the East Haddam gorge between Middletown and Long Island Sound. The 150 foot-plus waterfall dated to Lake Hitchcock draining ancient New England, birth of the Connecticut River, with the falls lasting about 4,000 years near Nathan Hale Hill.
The Army Signal Corps notes quartz crystals with piezoelectric properties are essential for stable radio frequency control in military and civilian gear. Most supply comes from Brazil, with demand rising as 70 million crystal units were used in wartime. Man-made substitutes are being explored but quartz remains unmatched.
At the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Dr Meta S Brown reports two cotton plants from seeds exposed to gamma rays on Bikini Atoll Able Day. The dwarf plant differs from a taller control. most treated seeds sprouted near normally but chromosome changes were widespread in the cells.
A new mineral named lough linite is reported from the Green River formation in southwestern Wyoming. Described by Joseph J. Fahe of the Geological Survey, the hydrous magnesium silicate was first found in 1940 in an oil well core and again in 1946, with more samples gathered last summer. The mineral resembles asbestos in appearance and occurs in low grade oil shale containing shortite crystals.
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