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...Observatory's estimates of the amount and reliability of New England wind and power were sufficiently complete to permit the design of apparatus and the selection of tentative sites for large-scale generation of electricity by wind power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIND SHOULD GENERATE ELECTRICITY FOR N. E. | 1/10/1940 | See Source »

...ragged overcoats, on the docks at Devonport Torpedo School. He bestowed no medals because, said the Admiralty: "You'd have to give medals to nearly every one of them-and what do they want with medals anyway?" The King boarded a trawler, dirtied his gloves fingering depth-charge apparatus and trawling gear. Later he helped receive a delegation of fishermen and trawler owners at the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. Said the mariners' spokesman, 6-ft.-3-in. Dan Hillman: "Sir, the fishermen are having a hell of a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Recognition | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...apparatus is similar in principle to other cyclotrons now in construction or operation throughout the world all of which are based on the fundamental design developed by Professor Ernest O. Lawrence of the University of California, recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces Completion of Atom Smasher, Useful in Research | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...high-velocity particles from the apparatus are applied by the physicist and chemist to the study of the nuclei of atoms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces Completion of Atom Smasher, Useful in Research | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...them makes a noise; 3) high price of film makes film recordings four to eight times as expensive as phonograph discs. A more important obstacle: a sudden change from disc to film recording would dislocate the $36,000,000 record business, make all present phonographs, record collections and recording apparatus obsolete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music on Film | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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