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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1949
Page
6
The bulletin outlines diverse devices from a basement clothesline with durable metal braces to a thermoplastic name tape that bonds to fabrics. It describes a glowing leader reel for fishermen, ergonomic dictaphone receivers, a clear garment bag with a stay-open device, artificial seawater for pools with colored salts, a New York scavenger boat, folding car tops with full-vision view, and a request for Gadget Bulletin 457 via Science Service.
A 1949 Science Service piece marks Albert Einstein's 70th birthday. It explains relativity in simple terms, notes challenges in using single syllable language, and outlines how motion alters mass time and space with basic experiments and thought experiments.
Science Service describes the transistor as a small semi conductor device likely to replace vacuum tubes. It amplifies or oscillates current without plates and wires, and could enable much smaller radios by controlling conductivity in germanium with incoming current.
The text explains that mass increases with speed, linking kinetic energy to mass. It presents Einstein's E = mc² and notes that one kilogram of matter fully converted to energy would yield about 25 billion kilowatt hours, comparable to two months of U S electric power output.
The article notes spring bird songs fill the air as robins thrushes wrens and orioles arrive. It argues birds sing for territorial and utilitarian reasons rather than purely happiness noting male migrants claim territory by singing and that wrens aggressively respond to cats with repeated songs.
Cornell University scientists repurpose about 3000 pounds of lead plates from the first decades of the Physical Review to shield cosmic ray and radiation experiments at the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies. The journal began in 1893 at Cornell, founded by Edward Nichols, later moved to New York, and now published by the American Institute of Physics.
A new tomato named Red Jacket was introduced in 1947. It is praised for juice, catsup, and chili sauce due to its deep red color. In gardens its foliage resembles potato plants.
A Do It Yourself electric kiln for home ceramics can reach over 1 950 degrees Fahrenheit in about 1 4 hours using house current 110 volts. Built from insulation fire bricks mica pellets and nickel replacement elements the 9 inch high hexagonal kiln costs under 6 and fires glazes and pottery.
A Danish farmer found between 4000 and 5000 coins from 1332 while plowing near Vejstrup. The coins, smaller than pennies and stamped on one side with a cross, stars and lilies, likely hid by an owner during King Christoffer II’s debt crisis and German invasion.
A new block combines concrete core with a marble faced finish cast into the unit. Invented by James A. Knighton, licenses for production are offered by Knighton Process Marble Face Block Licensing Corp New York. The waterproof weather-tight blocks reduce exterior work and offer thermal and fire resistance plus termite proofing.
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