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...heavier-than-air machine in public demonstration (two years before the Wright brothers).*The memorial, in Rio de Janeiro's Aeronautic Museum, was a 10-inch, gold-plated sphere, supported by a winged, kneeling figure in wood. Suspended within the sphere was a crystal ball containing preserving fluid in which floated the cold, now colorless heart of Santos-Dumont...
Died. George David Birkhoff, 60, famed Harvard mathematician, proponent of the "Perfect Fluid" four-dimensional theory of gravitation (alternative to Einstein's); of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass...
...isolated theelin, a female sex hormone in 1929, and a similar hormone in 1936 (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936). In 1939 he announced that he had analyzed two substances giving the same activity as vitamin K, and recently he patented a method of synthesizing.the vitamin. Synthetic vitamin K, called Menadione (fluid injections or tablets), has saved many lives...
...Adler says salt keeps fluid in the tissues instead of letting it run out of the nose. The fluid is eventually drawn off in the blood and discharged in the urine. The salt goes off that way, too, within 24 hours. Keeping the nose dry, he believes, makes a patient less susceptible to secondary infection. His method has been used in Elmira Reformatory's hospital for four years-about 1,300 colds so far-and Dr. Adler says the patients' noses are drier, their temperatures lower, than on standard treatment...
Embalming Fluid. In Boston, thieves robbed a tavern of 25 cases of liquor, removed their loot in a stolen hearse...