New Gadgets Spotlighted In Science Service Bulletin
A collection of new devices includes a picnic carrying case that opens into a low table with a detachable waterproof tray, several camping cooking aids with reflected heat ovens, a plastic fish with retractable hooks, a compact sewing kit, a mechanical hand on trial at London’s Emergency Limb Center, a transparent laundry bag for car use, a low cost home fire alarm with heat detectors, a silent lifting hospital bed, and a portable midget radioactivity detector using a Geiger counter. Readers can request Gadget Bulletin 466 by mail for details.
Weather terms Fair and Clear Explained in 1949
The 1949 Science Service notes that clear means cloudless skies with good visibility, while fair covers clear or mostly clear skies with sun by day and visible moon or stars at night. The distinction aids consistent forecast communication.
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Science Service
New Energy Sources Sought as Power Needs Grow
Scientists seek alternatives to dwindling fuels with focus on atomic and solar energy. Research explores liquid fuel from coal and tar sands, wind and tidal power, and storage methods like Glauber's salt in MIT studies. The goal is practical, economical power for vehicles and industry.
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United States
America
Earth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Glauber
Rutland
Smith-Putnam
General Electric Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Massachusetts
Restoring Damaged Picture Frame Ornaments At Home
Learn to repair carved plaster and wood moldings on frames by creating a plaster negative and a matching positive. Use paraffin, vaseline, or modeling clay to form molds, cast with plaster of Paris, then sand, glue, and gild to hide the repair for a seamless finish.
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Paris
Science Service
Nature Ramblings on Bugs and Rat Appetite Explained
In a blend of science and whimsy the piece laments bug lore from true bugs to bedbugs and traces the word bug to Welsh roots while noting modern slang battle with microbes. It then reports Dr Paul Thomas Young and Dr Curt Richter studies on rat food preferences showing habit, palatability, and deprivation shape choices.
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Paul Thomas Young
University of Illinois
Psychological Review
Young
Curt Richter
Johns Hopkins University
Science Service
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