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...hole golf course. . . . [It] is the most heavily telephoned State in the world. ... It can provide a telephone for every inhabitant. . . . Although the Pontiff has his own telephone and although it is listed in the telephone directory of Vatican City as number 101, no one can call him. The apparatus is so constructed that when the number is dialed, the Pope's telephone does not ring. . . . The Pope has surrendered to the use of the fountain pen for signing all his documents, although he unfailingly dips the pen into the inkwell before applying it to the paper...
...cyclotron of Ernest Orlando Lawrence neatly finesses such troubles by making a comparatively small voltage act on a particle repeatedly until it attains a speed corresponding to extremely high voltage, thus dispensing with a discharge tube altogether. Most conspicuous feature of the apparatus is an 85-ton electro-magnet whose poles face each other vertically across an 8-in. gap. In the gap is placed a shallow cylindrical tank, pumped out to a high vacuum so that particles inside may move freely without interference from air molecules. Ions such as deuterons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen...
...most gullible of these visited the top floor of Hunt Hall yesterday and discovered science's latest contribution to the art. There, Robert G. Scott, '29, instructor in Fine Arts, has created a novel apparatus for showing students in Fine Arts 2d the effects of light and odor on various shades and pigments...
This microvoltmetre must be used with special electrodes. When properly set up and adjusted the apparatus indicates only minute direct electrical currents generated by living creatures, and shuts out the long known alternating currents which physiologists use to determine the condition of the heart, the energy of the biceps, the well-being of nerves...
...field of research, which he calls Parapsychology, Dr. Rhine is the most conspicuous university investigator in the U. S. His tools and methods are essentially simple. Prime piece of apparatus is a pack of cards bearing five designs: a circle, a star, a plus sign, a rectangle, a band of three wavy lines. The pack consists of 25 cards, five cards of each design. To observe clairvoyance, he asks his subjects to identify the cards one by one as the pack lies face down. To observe telepathy they are asked to call cards imagined in the mind of another person...