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...replaces Professor Louis C. Graton, who will retire at the end of the term. Both scientists have worked together for several years, and spent last summer taking the temperature of geysers in Yellowstone National Park...
Professor Graton also goes west for his work--out to Yellowstone National Park and the geyser country. Last summer he wired up a cable with six electric thermometers, all recording simultaneously on a remote sheet of graph paper. He carried the device all over Yellowstone, and lowered it down the gullet of every geyser he could find...
...Graton wanted to see how temperatures changed at various depths as the geyser went off. But once his experimenting brought up more than a handful of pen-line graphs...
...happened last summer, when Graton had dropped his cable into Old Faithful, to study the temperature of the world's most famous geyser. Suddenly his instruments tripped some unknown underground trigger, and Old Faithful-- which had faithfully erupted every 63 minutes since the Indians found it--blew its top 15 minutes too soon. Graton and his party didn't know the geyser was loaded, but they backed out of the way before anyone was hurt...
...Graton works in hot ground. His fellow Department member, Professor Kirk Bryan, is an expert in cold ground. Bryan is doing research in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska, which presents problems to men building things like the Alcan highway...