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...true school of literary production for the past century has been journalism. In the reporter's work there is reality unattainable academically. Taste is another matter and taste is the product of training. But after all nothing amounts to anything without a spark of what, when it appears in flame, we call genius. Charles Reade called 'nulla dies sine linea' the eleventh commandment...
Physics students at the University of California watched with amazement the antics of a gas flame in a glass tube on Dr. E. E. Hall's lecture desk. Near the tube was a radio transmitter. No one tampered with the gas supply, yet the gas flame was made to flare up, turn from yellow to blue and roar. Dr. Hall explained that seven miles away, in the General Electric Co.'s laboratory, Charles Kellogg, famed "bird man," was broadcasting notes from the phenomenal upper register of his voice. The vibrations, 15,000 to 20,000 per second, transmitted...
Birdman Kellogg's larynx has long been a source of entertainment to the public and of revenue to him. He has been on and off the vaudeville stage for 15 years. His flame experiment was the result of thousands of "fan" letters he received after a radio lecture last month. He can "sing" a note so high that it is inaudible to the human ear. Such a sound can be made with a violin but no Tetrazzini, no Galli-Curci, could make it. With these notes topping his vocal scale Mr. Kellogg has learned to imitate and even improve...
...Hottest Flame. Dr. Irving Langmuir of the General Electric Company described his discovery of a flame hotter than hydrogen burning in oxygen (oxy-hydrogen). He made atomic hydrogen burn in an atmosphere of molecular hydrogen. His hydrogen blowtorch melted tungsten wire like an icicle, indicating that its heat was at least 7,000° F. Playing on a sheet of chrome steel the flame left molten pools behind it. Significance: steel girders could be welded silently instead of noisily riveted;* the welds would not (as when an oxyhydrogen flame is used) be oxidized and thus weakened, they would be annealing...
...Hotter than any flame is the electric arc already adapted to girder-welding (TIME...