Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cunarder Laconia and other large liners have recently tried out the Sperry gyro-pilot, a device which automatically steers 50% better than the human hand. The mechanism depends upon the rotation of the earth, and saves much of the wear and tear on the ship in rough weather...
...radio concert was heard in a tube 85 feet deep under the Hudson River. But Baltimore and Washington cannot communicate satisfactorily by radio. This is due to a large "dead spot" or peculiar geological formation in the earth between the two cities, says Dr. James Harris Rogers, inventor of undersea and underground radio communication. The energy waves travel from base plate to base plate, rather than from aerial to aerial, according to Dr. Rogers. Long-distance messages take the way of least resistance and are not hampered by dead spots. Washington electrical experts are experimenting on the problem...
This little book was written shortly before the war, during the streamingly bright summer days of the year 1914, when one was protected by political security. Heavy years have passed for us Germans, but nothing has destroyed that fellow feeling we have for the sun, water and earth...
John Corbin: "Nothing more original and more beautiful has ever been seen on earth...
...condensation of water vapor, just as dust particles help to form clouds and precipitate rain. It is, of course, possible that Venus affects terrestrial weather directly by magnetic or electrostatic influences. But it is more likely that it interferes with the solar radiations on their way to the earth. The sun is constantly bombarding our globe with negative or cathode rays. At the period of the 8-year transits of Venus, these rays pass through the disturbed atmosphere of Venus, are deflected, ionized, and when they strike the earth's atmosphere, produce an increased rainfall, which in turn stimulates...