New Gadgets and Machines Highlight Innovations Bulletin
The gadget bulletin describes a typewriter lamp with tubular fluorescent lighting for copying, sturdy dollies with rollers for moving heavy boxes, tack-free bookbinding adhesive, a handy household sprayer, an ear lamp using infrared heat, a moisture preserving display case for produce, lightweight aluminum bed springs, and diving gear from France with backflasks and mouth tubes enabling 90 minutes underwater. Readers can request Gadget Bulletin 373 from Science Service by mailing a stamp.
Pink Elephants On Western Mountain Slopes
Pink elephants can be seen on western mountain slopes without alcohol. They are plants with pink flowers resembling miniature elephant heads. They were once given the botanical name Elephantella but are now classified as Pedicularis.
Onions Beets and Flowers Yield Rich Warm Colors
The article traces early dye origins from berries and plants to modern chemical dyes, noting how ancient peoples found sources in flowers leaves and roots. It describes mordants like alum and chrome, dyeing methods, and cautions on colorfastness, ending with a home dye kit offer from Science Service.
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Tiny Props and Relativity in Amateur Photography
Junior scientists describe making dramatic proportioned photos using inexpensive lenses and imagination. Build tiny scenes with six to twelve inch horsetails and miniatures to exaggerate scale, crop after printing, and compare with familiar objects to produce surreal, Niagara like waterfalls in closeups.
Bones and Shells for the Amateur Scientist
A guide to collecting bones shells and horns with tips on display outdoors skulls as prizes in learning. It covers turtle shells deer antlers snake skins fossil bones and the comparative study of horse cat and dog skulls.
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Trumpeter Swan Census to Be Taken This August
A census of trumpeter swans, the largest waterfowl, will be conducted next month under the Fish and Wildlife Service. The survey tracks yearly counts since 1907 and notes past declines due to hunting and habitat loss, with recent numbers showing gradual recovery and protection across the United States and Canada.
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