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...laboratory facilities of the department of mechanical engineering are housed in the Gordon McKay Laboratory and include apparatus for instruction and research in a variety of mechanical engineering problems, and in addition the Dunbar Laboratory has been specially equipped for research on heat transfer and thermal measurements...
...apparatus for compressing air against the ear drums. Object: to exercise the ears...
...rise of the miniature camera, he continued, has been made possible by the introduction of new apparatus and more highly sensitized materials. Inability of commercial developers to handle these materials in the beginning forced the owners of small cameras to set up their own laboratories...
...current Physical Review Dr. Street undertakes to answer the mass question-approximately, not exactly. He took 1,000 photographs of cosmic ray activity in a "cloud chamber," an apparatus in which water vapor condenses in the path of ionizing particles as droplets of fog which can be photographed. Dr. Street rigged his apparatus so that the condensing value would operate not instantly when an ionizing particle passed through, but one second later. This allowed the fog tracks to spread a little, enabling him to get a better count of the droplets...
Arrested with five other men, Father Balaban was haled before a U. S. commissioner in St. Louis, charged with having possessed apparatus for making the "queer," having given a homemade $20 bill to a parishioner of 15 years' standing. Father Balaban's bond was set at $40,000. He went to jail, since his congregation not only declined to raise the bond but ousted him as pastor. The U. S. head of the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, Bishop Zivoin Ristanovich, suspended Father Balaban, advised his onetime flock to "keep faith, remain quiet, and pray for a just ending...