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...hands he carried a 44-lb. spear gun, weighted with an extra 4.4 Ibs. of lead. Bucher. poised on the rail of the small ship bobbing in the rough water, was aiming to become the first man ever to "skin-dive" (i.e., without the aid of artificial breathing apparatus) deeper than...
...Construction of a giant radio telescope and related electronic apparatus at the Observatory's Agassiz station in Harvard, Massachusetts...
...apparatus, however, can record the energy released by invisible radiation from the neutral hydrogen atom when its single electron does a "flip flop" (reverses its spin). By calculations astronomers can then place the gaseous clouds in their proper position in space...
Ewen took the challenge and built up antenna and associated detection equipment. Twice his electronic apparatus proved too insensitive; but the third model (pictured above) worked on the first...
...photography is the picture's main attraction, largely because Karl Freund uses his apparatus as if it were a miniature camera, picking out sharp contrasts and darting with remarkable mobility from scene to scene and view to view. Emil Jannings stars. The old man suffers from the medium, since he felt it necessary to dwell overly over each emotion to make it register without aid of a sound track...