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Died. Dr. Hermann Walther Nernst, 77, inventor of the Nernst metallic filament lamp, link between the carbon lamp and the modern incandescent lamp; in Muskau, Germany...
...happened to pass close by the sun. The disturbance caused the sun to throw off jets of matter, "planetesimals," which later collected in large masses to make the planets. Sir James Jeans pictured the passing star as raising a huge tide on the sun, eventually pulling out a long filament of sun-stuff which broke up into major pieces. British Harold Jeffreys favored an actual collision of sun and star, the two bodies drawing out a ribbon of their commingled substance as they veered away from each other. Other theorists supposed that the sun had originally been a double star...
Winding its endless filament of space-time around the sun, the earth swung this week squarely between the sun and the moon. Earth's shadow did not turn the moon entirely dark, because enough sunlight was bent around the earth by atmospheric refraction to illuminate the satellite dimly. Since long red wavelengths of sunlight pass through layers of atmosphere more easily than short blue wavelengths, the color of the eclipsed moon was a dark, dull, coppery...
...world's largest bottlemaker; their chemist, Games Slayter, started perfecting fibre glass seven years ago. Corning (assets and profits secret) has specialized in technical refinements; it was to Corning that Thomas Edison went in 1878 asking for a little glass bubble in which to put his incandescent filament...
...instead of clinging to the knee and sharp-eyed women maintained they could tell the difference at a glance). The new fibre (made of complex nitrogen compounds, among them cadaverine*), as silky as silk itself, can be produced in sizes one-tenth to one-seventy-fifth finer than silk filament, and in some sizes has 150% greater tensile strength. Its elasticity is such that it can be stretched up to 700% of its normal length. So far no one has attempted to produce it commercially. Hence chemists do not know what it will cost, though it is estimated it will...