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Following a year and a half of experimentation, Harvard's weather scientists announced yesterday the first successful attempt in this country to secure upper air data from a free traveling radio weather balloon, at night...
...ingenious packing of balsa wood and "ice cream bags" the weathermen have been able to overcome the main obstacle to such night observations--the very low temperatures at heights of ten miles or more, which, in the absence of the sun, have hitherto frozen instruments hung from the balloon...
...useful for night observations, as it has been for over a year in the day time, the radio balloon meteorograph becomes the best instrument for securing routine data of temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in the upper air. With an upper ceiling of 15 to 20 miles, the free balloon reaches much greater heights than weather airplanes. Its readings are transmitted automatically by short wave radio to a receiver on the ground, where the conditions are recorded on a revolving drum...
...present the only drawback to the general use of the radio balloon in place of the airplane is the expense of the apparatus, which, when sent up from Blue Hill, is usually blown out to sea and lost. The average cost of the balloons, weather and radio equipment, and batteries, for one complete unit is about $40, while the average charge to charter a plane for one weather flight...
...dance committee headed by Robert F. Dine '37, Winthrop H-32, including Fred P. Glike '37, William V. Smith '37, and Lemuel B. Hunter '37, has arranged for music by Ned Marshall's "Crimson Club" orchestra, and refreshments for all. A Cinderella slipper dance, balloon dances, and elimination dances are a few of the amusements in store for those who attend. Subscriptions at $2.00 may be obtained from Dine or at the door...