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Word: fogbrooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Half Mile of Nylon. This sounded good to fog-conscious Wesley Bellis, research director of the New Jersey department of transportation. He set up a research group, which finally evolved a "fogbroom," a 30-in. by 48-in. aluminum frame strung with a half mile of nylon thread and rotated at 86 r.p.m. by a base-mounted motor. In a research chamber in which a prime New Jersey fog can be simulated, a row of fogbrooms substantially thinned a test fog in a minute and completely cleaned it up in five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meteorology: Fogbrooms to the Rescue | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

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