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Beyond Cape Harrigan, as far as a powerful telescope could take the eye to sea, vast ice floes stretched-the densest in years, according to local fishermen. At Cape Mugford, the Bowdoin's propeller was damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: Jul. 20, 1925 | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

Flying in the densest fog will soon have no terrors for the aviator. On the airway between Dayton, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va., the Army Air Service has installed a "radio compass," with electric oscillations flashing between the towers at either end of the airway. An aviator flying exactly on the course hears only dashes; if his plane turns to left or right of the course and a coil in his receiving equipment is at an angle to the course, he hears a warning signal, dash and dot, or dot and dash, as the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Radio Compass | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

...biggest shadow in the world? 235,000 miles high, 105 miles wide, and 75 miles thick at its densest part?fell across San Diego today, the shadow of the moon as it crossed the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spreading | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

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