New Gadgets And Innovations Include Air Springs And Seein
Air springs for passenger cars use nine inch rubber containers paired on each axle to absorb shocks. A translucency meter advances chinaware quality by measuring translucency. A plastic artificial eye with tantalum mesh enables immediate or delayed implantation after injury. A precision plumb bob for carpenters improves cord accuracy. An adjustable swing keeps doors operable, and a convertible rocking chair offers hinged rockers. See Seeing-eye for blind men sends a light beam and converts it to audio signals for use.
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Carpenters and Engineers
Human Nutrition Studies Show What Pets Should Eat
Nutrition scientists review vitamin needs across common laboratory and household animals. Studies on rats mice monkeys and chickens reveal which vitamins support growth health and reproduction and how routes of administration affect utilization. The work informs human nutrition and guides animal feed labeling and formulation.
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Chicago
American Chemical Society
Harold P. Morris
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda
H. R. Bird
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Walter C. Russell
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Department of Agricultural Chemistry
Rutgers University
C. A. Elvehjem
K. B. McCall
Department of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin
B. S. Schweigert
Nutrition Laboratory
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Science Service
Syncretic Demons and American Pumpkin Folklore
The piece notes Hallowe'en jack o lanterns fuse Old World demon lore with New World materials. Fiends with fiery faces symbolize holiday spirits released for one night before All Saints. It stresses pumpkins are an American invention unknown in Europe before Columbus.
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Europe
5 000 Year Old Fish Traps Still Used on African Coast
The fish traps along 1000 miles of the African coast trap fish by tidal action. Built in rock or cleared spaces, some traps are semicircular or form two loops, age varies with cemented stones. Dating relies on nearby middens and pottery, showing early inhabitants used traps before hooks or pottery appeared.
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Berg River
St. Helena Bay
Kosi Bay
Zululand
A. J. H. Goodwin
University of Cape Town
Goodwin
Science Service
Miniature blow gun target game for toothpick darts
A 1946 Science Service guide describes a toy game using a soda straw blow gun and toothpick darts with colored thread tufts. Children suspend an apple and take turns blowing darts at it, aiming for a hit and rotating targets while tracking by color.
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Science Servic
Sioux moccasins with beaded soles debunk wedding myth
Curator Mark R. Harrington of the Southwest Museum notes Indians beaded soles as a snowoff gesture. Bill Iron Tail from Pine Ridge says beaded soles appeared in festival parades but not as wedding moccasins. He adds Sioux had no weddings and caution about death preparations.
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Dea
Mark R. Harrington
Southwest Museum
Lo Angeles
Bill Iron-Tail
Pine Ridge
S. C
Science
Oil Beneath the Sea and Continental Shelf Questions
A science brief explores offshore oil prospecting on continental shelves. Pacific and Gulf ventures operate safely from diving bells to study rock layers with gravity meters while questions of state versus federal ownership rise to the Supreme Court.
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Pacific
California
Gulf of Mexico
Texas-Louisiana
Atlantic
Gulf and Pacific
Atlantic Seaboard
United States
Supreme Court
Science Servic
Éces
Standard Oil Company
Bahamas
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British Quarterly Review of Archaeology
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Science Clubs of America
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Florida
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