Word: geologist
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...antique Greek art of divination by plucking pebbles from a heap, is today a $2,500,000-a-year study of the U.S. oil industry. Its present name is micropaleontology, and its new methods were explained last week at the University of Chicago conference (see p. 63) by Geologist Carey Gardiner Croneis...
Scientists from M.I.T., Caltech, Stanford, Harvard, the U.S. Weather Bureau took part in the research and design, but the idea man behind the windmill is Palmer Cosslet Putnam, onetime geologist in the Belgian Congo, flyer for Britain in World War I, president (1931) of G. P. Putnam's Sons, Manhattan publishers. "So far as we know," ventures Inventor Putnam, "this is the first attempt to generate alternating current by means of the wind for interconnection with a distribution system."* Engineers are sure that wind-generated electricity will be no costlier than water-generated, may possibly prove cheaper...
Professor Edward L. Troxell, who is Connecticut's State geologist and teaches geology at Hartford's Trinity College, last week proudly exhibited the latest results of a lifetime spent thinking about rocks: a xylophone made of stone. The idea came to him on a trip through Virginia's Shenandoah Caverns when his guide produced a beautiful, clanking tone by striking a stalactite across the middle...
Died. Dr. Robert Thomas Hill, 82, chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey between 1886 and 1930; in Dallas, Tex. He discovered the Woodbine, Trinity and Paluxy oil-bearing sands in Texas, made other discoveries which led to the finding of artesian well water, which made possible the agricultural development of central Texas...
Many a curiously bent tree growing in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region is no mere freak of nature. It is the handwork of long-dead Indians. In the July Scientific Monthly Geologist Raymond E. Janssen of Evanston, Ill. tells how he settled the puzzle of the crooked trees for which he could find no scientific explanation anywhere. He ran across a few historical references which indicated that "trees were sometimes bent by the Indians to mark trails through the forests." Several summers of study convinced Janssen that the deformed trees are surviving guideposts...