New Gadgets Spotlight Patent Gizmos And Tools
A roundup of recently patented devices includes a circular lamp shade water bowl, a snake bite kit with vacuum seal receptacle, a microfilm recorder that captures front and back of documents, chimney mounting for radios, a high tensile sail for boats, fiberglass window stripping, a curved exercise table, and a self dumping wheelbarrow. For more details send a three cent stamp to Science Service in Washington D C for Gadget Bulletin 436.
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Attuima Season: Trees Shed Old Leaves and Await Resurrection
The piece speaks of spring as a renewal rather than loss, noting trees shed aging leaves while buds remain ready to burst. It claims Attuima is a season of death in mood, yet nature prepares for revival with buds packed for spring.
Giant Mountains and Canyons Found Beneath Ocean Depths
Oceanographers reveal a hidden world as the Gulf Stream narrows and swift, undersea mountains rise 6000 feet above the floor near Bermuda. Instruments sample water at depth, cores extend back millions of years, and underwater cameras capture sea life as scientists map currents and sediment layers.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole
Mass
Bermuda
Atlantic
Albatross
Oceanographic Division
The
Hydrographic Office
Department of the Navy
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California
Yale University
Bingham Oceanographic Laboratories
University of Washington
Oceanographic Laboratories
New York University
U.S. Naval Electronics Laboratory
San Diego
U.S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory
New London
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D. C
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Science Service
Atlantis
Nansen
E. W. Scripps
Frank Haymaker
Atlantic Ocean
D. M. Owen
Make Your Own Tiny Glass Torch for Microchemical Work
Learn to forge a home made glass blowing torch using kitchen gas air sources and a blowpipe with glass T fittings. The guide covers assembling the nozzle, securing gas and air supplies, and steps to form bulbs and seals for miniature lab pieces using recovered bottle glass and simple shaping techniques.
X Rays Point Toward Protein Atomic Structure Mystery
Science Service describes how X rays reveal protein skeletons and their snowflake patterns. Prof Dorothy Wrinch of Smith College notes spines on protein surfaces and twinning in crystals may unveil how proteins fit into living organisms.
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Dorothy Wrinch
Smith College
Wrinch
Science Service
Stinkbugs Controlled With DDT Treatment
U S Department of Agriculture scientists report that one application of DDT dust can keep stinkbugs and related pests at low levels for a season in sugar beet fields. The Say stinkbug is most dangerous, but Lygus bugs cause annual damage. DDT may control both pests according to W H White of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
W. H. White
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology
More Stomach Gives Cow More Kinds of Aches
The four part stomach of the cow is not four stomachs but one stomach with four compartments. Vets led by Dr. James D. Grossman of Columbus Ohio note cows have three storage and fermentation vats in addition to the rumen. The extra compartments mean cows suffer a wider range of stomach disorders than humans or many animals.
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James D. Grossman
Columbus
Ohio
Moon Blindness Vitamin Trial in Horses at Army Depot
Experiments at the Front Royal Virginia Quartermaster Depot show that the B complex vitamin riboflavin prevents moon blindness in horses. Moon blindness refers to equine periodic ophthalmia, an eye disease not related to the moon.
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Front Royal
Department of the Army
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