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...opening to experimental investigation a forbidden field: the living human body. . . . Organs removed from the human body, in the course of an operation or soon after death, could be revived in the Lindbergh pump, and made to function again when perfused with an artificial fluid. . . . When larger apparatus are built, entire human organs, such as pancreas, suprarenal, thyroid, and other glands . . . would manufacture in vitro the substances supplied today to patients by horses or rabbits...
...making and selling receiving sets as soon as it feels it is commercially practicable, has since added to its telecast this screened announcement: These television transmissions are experimental and should not be regarded as establishing a Television Service. Any revision of the tentative standards of transmission or changes to apparatus will necessitate discontinuance of schedules. Last week NBC piled on an additional spoken announcement to emphasize the point, adding the information that the series formerly announced to run through the summer would be dropped the second week in June with no definite date set for resumption. CBS, with delivery...
...witnessed the first television book review in the U. S. The book was Sidney A. Spencer's The Greatest Show on Earth, a collection of photographs illustrating economic laws; the reviewer was baldish, bearded Critic Ernest Boyd. In a milky, translucent square of light in the television receiving apparatus, the audience could make out the figure of Critic Boyd, his features hidden in shadows, as he faced some indistinguishable framed object on the studio wall and began his review by exclaiming nervously, "Ah, Johann Gutenberg!" Intermittently photographs from the book were flashed on the screen: pictures of the unemployed...
Using a super-sensitive apparatus containing a C electric battery, a galvanometer, and a photoelectric cell he was able to record the amount of deflection in the current caused by the comb, which was separated from his instrument by 20 ft. of open...
...Relativity, or did it revive the ether concept, which has no place in a relativistic world? The answer to that question depends on whether the observed effects were due to absolute motion through an ether, or to relativistic motion, the motion of the particles relative to Dr. Ives' apparatus-a point which was not settled last week. In Princeton, Dr. Einstein accepted the experiment as another prop for Relativity. Some of his admirers agreed with him, but some of his critics thought the experiment proved the existence of the ether. When the question was aimed at Experimenter Ives...