Word: glow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much-publicized electrical companies-General Electric and Westinghouse-supply most of the U. S. with lamp bulbs. In Europe that function is performed chiefly by potent Philips Glow-lampworks of Holland, which also boasts one of the finest physical research laboratories east of the Atlantic. Last week it appeared that all three companies were working independently on the same thing -a new sodium vapor bulb to be used primarily for street lighting. In Manhattan, 100-odd members, of the New York Electrical Society sat like jaundiced mummies in an auditorium suffused with the yellow sodium light while their president described...
...light of the bulb is monochromatic, i.e. it glows in but one color. Such light is useful in highway illumination because it reveals the details of objects at low levels of illumination, casts almost no shadow. The yellow glow of the sodium eliminates the offensive glare of white light, and, although the average motorist would probably find the bulb dim at first sight, it actually gives three to four times more light than the ordinary street lamp. The Philips bulb is credited with increasing seeing power at night from 12 to 20 times. Already installed in a dozen places...
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When the Leonid meteors coursed through the upper air last November, Astronomer Olivier had 14 scattered observers chart the meteor trails. Comparison of data showed the meteors traveling 90 to 142 m. p. h. The faster ones began to glow from atmospheric friction when 84 mi. from earth's surface. At 54 mi. they burned themselves out. Two of the meteors spattered luminescent trains behind them, which Astronomer Olivier's men saw floating 50 to 60 mi. aloft. Wind drove one train upward at an angle of 55 degrees and a speed of 142 m. p. h. Wind...
Cosmic Radiation is one of the major mysteries of the heavens. It accounts for nearly 60% of the light of a moonless night, figures Pieter Johannes van Rhijn, Dutch astronomer. (Stars supply another 25%, permanent auroral glow 15%.) On a moonless spring night residents of northern states can see a concentration of cosmic radiation as a wedge of zodiacal light at the western horizon. In the autumn the light concentrates at the eastern horizon. One theory of the source of zodiacal light supposes that it is sunlight reflected from small bodies or gas molecules. Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell...