New Gadgets For Outdoor Cooking And Household Tools
A Science Service bulletin introduces three tine toasting forks for bonfires, a wool and hair treatment using formamidine sulfinic acid, and a high frequency inductions heater in a compact steel cabinet. It also describes a package opener with a sloping razor, a metal locator probe, an electric fly screen transformer, a portable mortising tool from Germany, and a toe razor blade holder. Readers can request Gadget Bulletin 330 by mailing a three cent stamp to Science Service in Washington DC.
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Science Service
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Washington, D. C
Evil Fruit By Science Service
It is possible for good tree to show evil fruit if Dagworm cases dangle from its twigs. These voracious but protected caterpillars overwinter there and their offspring will carry on destructive activities next year. Leaves fall, cases become conspicuous and easy to remove. Pull them off and burn them.
Meteor Shower Expected October Ninth Through Tenth
The article notes a major meteor shower likely early in October as the Earth crosses the Giacobini Zinner comet debris. It recalls a 1933 display, outlines viewing tips, and includes cautious forecasts from Harvard and UC observers about variable meteor rates and moonlight interference.
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Giacobini-Zinner
Earth
Giacobini
Cunningham
Nu Draconis
Draco
Fletcher Watson
Harvard Observatory
Europe
America
Twenity
B. P. Sharpless
U. S. Naval Observatory
Junior Scientists Study Air Currents With Spent Tubes
Junior scientists learn to cut and clean spent fluorescent tubes into glass cylinders for convection experiments. They heat, crack, and smooth the ends, then demonstrate air flow with candles, a tee, and two holes in plates to show how currents affect combustion.
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Science Servic
Eggs Tested by Girls Pilot Palatability Panel
Five graduate chemists in the U S Department of Agriculture Dairy and Poultry Branch Laboratory in Chicago formed a palatability panel to rate dried whole eggs for taste and quality. They trained to distinguish sour sweet bitter and salt and developed a scoring system from eight for top flavor to zero for poorest. The panel has graded over 100000 samples from plants nationwide and helped cut substandard products, guiding manufacturers to high grade premium eggs.
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Sam
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Dairy and Poultry
Chicago
U. S. Department of Culture
United Kingdom
Science Servi
Harmless Stain Used to Prevent Repeat Votes in Island Republic
Two civic-minded citizens sought Public Health Service aid for their republic’s first democratic election. They used potassium permanganate as a washable marker that leaves an indelible harmless stain to deter multiple voting, since silver nitrate was unavailable.
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U. S. Public Health Service
Sludge Reuses Boost Tasmanian Farm Yields
Sludge from papermill waste used as fertilizer in Tasmania improves crop production. Straw is cooked eight hours, sludge pumped a mile to a hilltop pond for lime impregnation, then to storage lagoons. The black liquid mud is distributed by irrigation ditches, cattle drink from the settling pond, and only four livestock illness cases have occurred in 13 years.
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Tasmania
Australia
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University of California
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American Meteor Society
Hamilton M. Jeffers
Lick Observatory
Calif
F. R. Cripps
Moon
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Pepa
Olivier
Society
Vega
Dr. Cunningham
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