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...thermit fame, the chemical (aluminium powder and oxide of iron) with which he last .month relieved Oil City and Franklin, Pa., of an ice-gorge in the Allegheny River; with which he will experiment at "burning up icebergs" this summer in Greenland (TIME, March...
...larger than any, for the Josephine, as well as a small set for her tail; after explaining into a microphone for the radio public how he intends to visit the North Pole by flying in 400-mile stages from Spitzbergen with an intermediate base on Cape Morris Jessup. Greenland, taking with him only one flight companion, Chief Petty Officer Floyd Bennett, but having at call by radio in Kings Bay a reserve plane (Curtiss Oriole) manned by fellow service flyers; after reading a great many flattering, tender, hopeful, encouraging farewell messages (doubtless including one from his brother, Governor Harry...
...Titanic disaster aroused the nations to institute an annual patrol from April to July along the northern steamer lanes, whither the icebergs float after they break from their Greenland glaciers. The U. S. took up the burden, many nations sharing the expense. So efficient has been this search for and report of wandering bergs that not a life has been lost since the patrol...
This year Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University will try to destroy icebergs at their source, in the Greenland glaciers. Here the ice cap is 7,000 feet thick. Vast bits break off at the sea edges to float south to the Newfoundland banks as bergs. Dr. Barnes hopes to smash the glacier edges with thermite, a chemical which develops enormous heat in contact with ice.* (TIME, March...
Berg Burning. At Montreal, Dr. Howard T. Barnes, Physics Professor at McGill University, announced an expedition in June to Greenland to experiment with heat mines on icebergs. After 30 years of ice research, he has concocted a chemical he calls "thermit," nonexplosive, non-inflammable, rendered dangerous only by contact with ice, when it develops intense heat in a few seconds. The plan is to apply "thermit" to Greenland's west coast glaciers, "burn them up" before they break off in the huge chunks so dangerous to Atlantic shipping. Floating bergs will also be attacked, the scientists rowing alongside, planting...