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Only in 1873, at Vienna, was it discovered that one electric dynamo could make another rotate. The second became a motor, and the electric transmission of power came within the possibilities of engineering. A Russian, Paul Jablochkov, invented the arc light in 1876; Thomas Edison the incandescent light in 1879. In 1881 Thomas Edison opened the first public electric supply station. And only five years later Tokyo, for more than two centuries secluded from European and U. S. science, also had its electric light system. The Tokyo Electric Light Co. was the innovation. It first served current for 75 lamps...
Although many spikes and cleats have done their obliterative best, the Stadium has not quite lost the touch of a buskined foot. The Joan of Arc of Maude Adams was one of the first plays to be presented here, and "Caliban", the effort of Percy Mackaye to go Browning, and Shakespeare, one better was given shortly after the World War. And the classical play has not absented itself from classical setting, for the "Iphigenia in Taurus" of the company of Granville Barker likewise saw worthy performance in appropriate surroundings. Within the year Miss Anglin's "Electra" has been produced...
Skyrockets were familiar things to Herr von Opel's audience. You light the fuse, the powder burns, the gases expand so rapidly that they push the rocket up through the air in a screeching arc. But could an automobile be substituted for the stock of a skyrocket and pushed along the ground by posterior expansion? Herr von Opel would show them...
...with a parlor game: a modern variation of famed tiddledywinks. An ashtray is placed on the floor. The players (any number from two to eight), equipped with dimes and quarters, squat. In turn, they use their quarters to try to flick their dimes into the ashtray in a graceful arc. It is a game requiring firm thumbs, keen eyes. It was invented by that skillful player, John Cowles, 29, who is to Des Moines what a dynamo is to a powerhouse...
...latest measurements of the cosmic ray (TIME, November 23, 1925) prove it to consist of definite bands of color, like the light from a Cooper-Hewitt mercury arc, but the spectral region in which the bands occur corresponds to frequencies 100,000,000 times greater than those emitted by the Cooper-Hewitt arc. Having measured the ray, Dr. Millikan sat down to figure out its importance. He turned to Einstein's theories. He found, using the Einstein equation (M C 2-E), that the most conspicuous band in the cosmic ray spectrum is probably the same band that would...