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...system, but we are at a loss to account for the phrase "distortion point 310°." Does the 310° refer to angular measure and if so, is the plane of distortion horizontal or vertical? Or does it refer to temperature, and if so, is the scale Fahrenheit, Centigrade, or Kelvin? If the scale is Kelvin, we look with breathless anticipation to certain conditions to which the system must eventually be subjected...
...Relax, boys; reference is to temperature and the scale is Fahrenheit. (For nonscientific readers: 1) 310° K = 98.6°F; 2) that is body temperature; 3) a distortion point of 310°K would mean that the plastic cups would lose their shape at body temperature...
Magic Pellets. Schaefer's cloud-poisoning act was the fruit of long, careful experiment. After much research, he learned how to turn the trick in miniature. First he cooled the air in a laboratory cold chamber (rather like a deep-freeze cabinet) to about 5° below zero, Fahrenheit. He breathed into the chamber and his breath condensed to fog. He made a magic pass with a single pellet of dry ice. The fog cleared, and glittering snowflakes drifted on to the chamber's floor. From this point it was easy to expand the process to full, outdoor...
...young doctor at Brooklyn's Bushwick hospital squinted incredulously at the thermometer in his hand. The reading: 110° Fahrenheit. Two more readings with two other thermometers convinced Dr. Moritz Wilchfort that Student Nurse Sophie Sapala, 21, suffering from undulant fever, had hit a new high in body heat and lived. High fever marks (with survival) previously recorded in medical history...
...only laggard was France. In 1859, Paris composers got the Government to stabilize A at 870 vibrations, at 59° Fahrenheit...