New Gadgets Highlighted In Science Service Bulletin
A list of new devices includes toothpaste dispensers usable with flexible tubes, a night glowing doorbell push bar, a telephone aid cabinet, sun glass lenses with special nickel alloy coating, a frequency counter for radio waves, a glow in the dark flashlight case, and fluorescent pictures reacting to ultraviolet light. The bulletin invites readers to request Gadget Bulletin 425 by sending a three cent stamp.
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Science Service
N.W
Washington D. D. C
Summer Gold Goldenrod as National Flower Debate
The essay argues for goldenrod as the national flower, noting its wide North American distribution and rarity in Eurasia. It counters claims that goldenrod causes hay fever, explaining its pollen is heavy and unlikely to drift, unlike ragweed pollen.
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North America
Eurazia
Recordings Skull Measuring Part of Expedition's Studies
International field team led by Wendell Phillips surveys Africa from Sinai to Kenya to detail present populations and find clues to prehistory. Fieldwork includes Neolithic canals in Egypt's Faiyum, Neanderthal migration trails, and Masai sound recordings by Arch Obeler with plans for Congo and Mozambique medical research and a Ladysmith cave dig.
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South Africa
University of California
Wendell Phillips
William B. Terry
Africa
Egypt
Union of South Africa
Asia
Sinai Peninsula
Israel
Promised Land
Moses
Sinai
Faiyum
Nile Valley
Utah
Nevada
Great Salt Lake
Cleopatra
The
Nile
Henry Field
Washington, D. C
Tamiya
Sudan
Kenya
Arch Obeler
Congo
British East Africa
French Equatorial Africa
Portuguese East Africa
Mozambique
Ladysmith
Science Service
Gladys Terry
Beduin
Mini hot air balloon build recreates Montgolfier flight
Simple at home project describes making a three foot tall balloon using a four ribbed wire frame paper sectors and tissue. It covers materials such as denatured alcohol cotton borax boric acid and cautious handling to avoid fire while noting a historic Montgolfier first flight with animals and humans.
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Joseph
Etienne Montgolfier
Science Service
Vanilla Experiments at Cornell Grow New Seedlings
Professor Lewis Knudson at Cornell University reports success germinating vanilla seeds using a special nutrient medium. Two hundred hybrid vanilla seedlings were shown to the U.S. Agricultural Experiment Station in Puerto Rico for disease resistance and quality testing. Rice from Puerto Rico may ease rural unemployment as vanilla demand rises in a $10 million annual market.
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Cornell University
Lewis Knudson
U. S
Puerto Rico
Knudson
Iron Age Man's Two Coats and No Pants Revealed
Science Service describes Denmark fabric finds from the Iron Age showing two short coats worn without trousers. A preserved nude male corpse yielded a preserved skin jacket of 22 short-haired animal skins and a second poorer pullover sheepskin garment. Dr. Alfred Andersen dated the find to the era beginning of the Christian era, corroborated by a Mainz Roman castle carving of chained Teutonic prisoners wearing similar jackets.
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Denmark
Alfred Andersen
Mainz
Germany
Water Power for Jobs in Puerto Rico
Water power is promoted as the key to Puerto Rico’s economic growth as hydro projects expand under the Puerto Rico Resources Authority. The Caonillas, Garzas, and Dos Bocas schemes already operate with 18 dams planned or in use, aiming to supply about 400 million kilowatt hours annually by 1970 and potentially double that amount.
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Puerto Rico
New Jersey
Puerto Rico Resources Authority
Insular
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