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Three years ago Professor Fred Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute was studying various elements by the magneto-optic method when he got unexpected results which led him to suspect the existence of a hydrogen isotope whose nucleus was twice as heavy as that of ordinary hydrogen. Not long afterward Dr. Urey and two associates concentrated enough of the isotope to identify it. He estimated that heavy hydrogen was present in ordinary hydrogen gas to the extent of about one part in 4,000. He named the new isotope deuterium...
...Albany-to-New York race; in 3 hr. 15 min. 22 sec. Weeks beforehand, Feldhusen familiarized himself with the course-over which he had raced four times-by getting a job as deckhand on a river liner. More than half his time allowance-21 min.-was wasted when magneto trouble delayed him at the start. He overtook Cab Walier of Syracuse a mile from the end, finished 100 yards ahead, with severe bruises and cuts on his left knee, motor-deafness that lasted an hour...
...autobomba, rigged by three students, one the son of a National University engineering professor. Supposedly based on an invention of U. S. gangsters, it was an automobile with an iron crib slung underneath. In the crib were 350 lb. of dynamite and TNT, wired to the handbrake and the magneto. Its makers planned to abandon it in front of Havana's police headquarters. When police released the handbrake to drive it away, the huge charge would blow police and headquarters to scraps. The three riggers were whisked off to jail...
According to Havana police, the 6 Ib. of dynamite were placed at a street-corner which the President was scheduled to pass in his automobile. An electric cable ran from the bomb to a magneto detonator some distance away. A gardener noticed the wire, called police. They hid near the detonator. A swank motor car drove up. Out stepped Dr. Igacio Mendoza and two other young men-about-town, one his cousin. All were arrested. Just then the President's car appeared. Recognizing the young men. General Machado alighted smiling, insisted on shaking hands with them all, exclaiming...
Because Professor Allison's magneto-optical apparatus is his own contrivance, many a scientist doubted his discoveries. A few used similar machines, notably Professor Joseph Llewellyn McGhee of Emory University, Atlanta. Light from an electric spark is polarized by a Nicol prism, then sent through a cell containing carbon disulfide, a second cell containing a water solution of any substance to be tested; lastly through a second analyzing Nicol prism. Each of the two cells is surrounded by a coil of electric wire which becomes an electromagnet. The coils are so wound that the swings of the magnets...