New Machines And Gadgets
A roundup of home and personal gadgets includes a three level safety stepladder with hinged platforms. A pocket size slide rule features three parts and a hairline indicator. Silicone treated lens cleaners leave a protective film. Corrugated salt packets replace shakers in busy settings. A single cup coffee brewer uses a drip top and heat retaining cap. Pastry cloth prevents sticking and handles dough without touching tools. A nylon motorcycle cover protects bikes during storage. For more, send three-cent stamp to Gadget Bulletin 438 at Science Service Washington DC.
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Washington, D. C
All Imps Night Traced To All Saints Eve Belief
The piece explains that Halloween originated not as a holy day but as an unholy night. On the eve of All Saints or All Hallows, devils imps hobgoblins and other bad spirits were believed released for one night of mischief and misdeeds.
Science Talent Search Winners Show Early Scientific Prowess
The 1948 Science Talent Search spotlights 280 teens advancing from humble labs to notable science careers. Winners from chemistry to geology and astronomy conducted summer research across Alaska to Cuba, with many already at colleges or holding internships in labs and universities.
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Westinghouse
Science Clubs of America
Science Service
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Judith Cassidy
National Laboratory
Atomic Energy Commission
Catherine Ens
Monsanto
Carol Pike
Hydrocarbon Research, Inc
Sinclair Refining Co
Jean Ross
Gloria Lauer Grace
Barnard College
Elizabeth Foster Tilton
Chicago Lying-In Hospital
Chicago University
Alcohol Powered Boat Toy Demonstrates Surface Tension
A cigar box boat toy driven by rubbing alcohol through a modified medicine dropper demonstrates surface tension effects in water. The project, about 6 inches long, uses a heated dropper tip to feed alcohol onto the trough surface, creating motion. variations include using soap, oils, camphor, or talcum powder to steer or impede the craft.
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Science Service
Atlantic Coast Submerges Slowly. Coast Survey Reports
The Atlantic coast has sunk about 0.02 foot per year for 17 years, with Middle Atlantic area subsiding at one seventh that rate since 1900. Whether shore subsidence or sea level rise dominates remains unresolved, though both may occur. Global tide observations could settle the question.
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Atlantic
United States
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Middle Atlantic
H. A. Marmer
Geographical Review
Mr. Marmer
Science Service
DDT Used to Increase Yield of Peanuts
The insecticide DDT is added to the sulfur dust used by Virginia and North Carolina farmers to fight peanut leaf spot. The dusting mixture now recommended by the U S Department of Agriculture contains one percent DDT, ninety percent sulfur and nine percent inert material.
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Virginia
North Carolina
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Culture Bank Supplies Tuberculosis Germs Worldwide
A Culture Bank operated by the National Tuberculosis Association at Trudeau Sanitorium in Trudeau New York distributes standard strains of the tubercle bacillus to researchers worldwide. The stock aids evaluation of results and supports global TB research efforts.
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Martin Karplus
Point Barrow
Alaska
Arctic Research Laboratory
Constance
Sawyer Warwick
Joyce Morrison
Gordon Newkirk, Jr
Harvard
Massachusetts
Harlan Smith
New Mexico
Navy
Elizabeth Roemer
California
National Bureau of Standards
Barclay Kamb
Trudeau
N. Y
National Tuberculosis Association
Trudeau Sanitorium
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Far West
Jerome Eisenberg
Cuba
Canada
Paul Cloke
U. S. Geological Survey
Maine
Jules Kernen
Washington University
Cecilia Self
Gary Felsenfeld
New York
Ruth Reichart
Alice Dale
New York City
Nashville
Robert Hall
Smithsonian Institution
David Shappirio
Saul Kravetz
David Cudaback
Mys
Teries
Radiation Laboratories
Berkeley
Raymond Schiff
Westinghouse Research Laboratories
Texas
Westinghouse Educational Foundation
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Ruth Miles Briehl
Dubuque
Iowa
Virginia March Kline
McArdle Cancer Research Laboratory
University of Wisconsin
Richard Hoover
M.S
St. Louis
Wolf Karp
Cornell
Edward Kosoner
University of California At
Los Angeles
John Michener
Carnegie Tech
Evelyn Pease
University of Michigan
Rodman Jenkins
Cal. Tech
National Institute of Health
Robert Kraich
Nan
Roy Mottleson
MIT
Clifford Swartz
University of Rochester
Halsey Royden
Stanford
Wayland Noland
St. N. W
Roy Willcockson
Tulsa
Okla
Wyoming
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company
Constance Sawyer Warwick
Lewiston
Harvard College Observatory
Robert West, Jr
Caldwell
N. J
Maltine Laboratories
By Joseph H. Kraus
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U.S
Culture Bank
Zoological Gardens of
San Diego
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