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Choosing an astronomical symbol for the New Planet is also a problem. Signs of the anciently known planets are conventionalized pictures. Mercury's represents the Caduceus, or head with winged cap; Venus' a looking glass; the Earths its equator and a meridian; Mars', a shield and spear, or a warrior...
The immensity of the solar system can be grasped by considering Augusta, Me., as the sun and Sacramento. Calif., 2,663 air miles away, as the New Planet. Earth would then circle through Portland, Me., Mercury through Wiscasset, Me Venus through Rockland, Me., Mars through Bar Harbor, Me., Jupiter through...
Percival Lowell, to whom the real credit must go for the discovery, founded the Lowell Observatory in 1894. At that time he was especially attracted by the problems of the markings on the planet Mars, and the Observatory has always devoted its of largely to that planet, and the planetary...
To the actual mechanics of the production, all credit is due; done throughout with technicolor and the vitaphone, it is undoubtedly an achievement, and sets a high-water mark in sound-photography which will endure for a brief space at least. Sound and color effects alike leave nothing to be...
General Electric's revered Elihu Thomson was succeeding so well in making small quartz mirrors for telescopes that last week he reaffirmed his promise of delivering a 200-inch mirror to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) in two or three years. It will be twice as wide and six...