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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poisonous Tail. From a study of photographs taken of Halley's comet at its last appearance in 1910, Dr. N. T. Bobrovnikoff, Perkins Observatory, Ohio Wesleyan, found that the comet really had two tails. One, narrow and brilliant, consisted of carbon monoxide gas, would have killed all life on earth if it had approached too closely. The other tail was curved, consisted of meteoric dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Astronomers | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...Health, is a mechanical aid to breathing. It is a large casket into which the body of a patient with respiratory paralysis can be inserted. His head extends into the open air. A motor creates a vacuum in the respirator causing the chest to expand. Consequently stimulating oxygen and carbon dioxide may be sucked into the patient's lungs. When the respirator's vacuum is filled with air, the patient's lungs collapse, expelling their vitiated gases. Persistent repetition of this process often sustains the patient until his lungs regain their normal power. Last week Irving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Whom to Save? | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...United Carbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Aug. 18, 1930 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...Also suggested: when a cylinder becomes clogged with carbon its volume is reduced, fuel vapor is consequently subjected to greater pressures, which cause knocking explosions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Knocking Gas | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...Herman Hirschorn and Samuel Rosenblum at once applied artificial respiration. While they were alternating squeezing and releasing the victim's ribs, an ambulance arrived with Dr. Irving Plain and an inhalator. The guards ceased their efforts at resuscitation to argue with Dr. Plain that the inhalator's carbon dioxide, which stimulates breathing, can harm lung tissue. He would not, they said, let anyone use an inhalator on one of their drowning patients. A pulmotor pumps oxygen into the lungs too quickly, in their opinion. As the life guards and doctor argued long and loud, police arrived with another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors Disagree | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

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