Word: heyl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jeans was not the only astronomer who, last week, was engaged in somewhat mundane speculations. Dr. Paul Renno Heyl, a physicist attached to the U. S. Bureau of Standards, began his second series of experiments to determine the world's weight. Last year he estimated this to be 6,592,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. Now, by making a slight change in his apparatus,* Astronomer Heyl expects to achieve a slight but consequential difference in his result...
...below? Steel girders, plaster and cement can muffle but never quite extinguish sound; but last week a scientist came forward with the statement that noise can be kept out of a room just as well as a snowstorm can; that a scream can be locked up. He, Dr. Paul Heyl, Chief of the U. S. sound laboratory (Bureau of Standards), has invented a soundproof partition, which he demonstrated in Washington. On a night when two dances were being given in the Mayflower Hotel-a charity ball in one ballroom and a party for members of the Diplomatic Corps in another...
...trot in the charity ball room; in the diplomatic ballroom an orchestra of strings played a waltz. There was no confusion. The diplomats did not hear a single ribald chuckle of jazz; the charity strutters were not bored by the supplications of fiddle strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable substances, we have found, enmesh and deaden sound which would vibrate through the strongest...
...defeated Hynson (P) 6-1, 6-3. Briggs (H) defeated Hicks (P) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. Whitbeck (H) defeated Minary (P) 6-2, 6-1. Perkins (H) defeated Lambert (P) 6-3, 6-4. Cummings (H) defeated Wood (P) 6-3, 6-1. Lenhart (H) defeated Heyl...
From the Bureau of Standards simultaneously comes evidence of a different nature. The demonstration involved the weighing of topaz and diamond crystals in certain positions in relation to the axis of the earth. The experiments were in charge of Dr. Paul R. Heyl. Under the Newtonian theory of gravitation, the crystals would vary in weight in certain positions. This Einstein denied, and Dr. Heyl has so far found no variation, though using scales so delicate that they can detect differences of one part in a billion...