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...shadow climbs northeastward over half the world, the experts will be waiting with telescope, camera and electronic recording equipment. By their observations they hope: 1) to correct their maps and charts, 2) learn something about weather prediction and radio communication, 3) check on a prediction made by Albert Einstein some 37 years...
...smiling and nodding, to acknowledge the cheers and applause of the guests who had come to honor him. Robert Williams Wood was in his soth year as a full professor at Johns Hopkins University, and the brightest names in the scientific world wanted to help celebrate the occasion. Albert Einstein had written to pay his respects, Niels Bohr had cabled from Copenhagen, Robert A. Millikan, Harlow Shapley and Karl Compton all sent messages. In 50 years, scientists all over the world have grown accustomed to paying tribute to Professor Wood-and Johns Hopkins has grown just as used to having...
Most of these fads and fancies were duly reported by Popular Mechanics, a lusty new magazine, whose editors ignored Einstein and took a dim view of the horseless carriage ("Not that the time will ever come when ... horses [will] entirely disappear from boulevard and town . . ."). They had more faith in lighter-than-air craft than they had in airplanes. They recorded the invention of perpetual motion machines and the impact of the telephone on the Turkish harem...
...airplane and the automobile had earned undisputed prominence in the pages of the magazine. Hobbyists were being taught how to build their own radios. The progress of motion pictures, the first hints of television were both discussed. As early as 1941, amateur scientists, who knew about Einstein by now, could marvel at prophecies of fantastic power hidden in the atomic heart of uranium...
...religious thought undergo no change." Says Dr. Hedley, who believes man's knowledge of God can expand as much as his knowledge of science: "The proudly impious yet persist in judging all religion by their own childhood memories . . . Perhaps it is well that [they] did not meet Albert Einstein until they got into Upper Division courses, John Dewey until they entered Teachers' College; or, on as good grounds as they can show for religion, they might have declared physics and philosophy unworthy of their notice...