Word: meldon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same correlations. The past year sunspots decreased about 50%, radio reception improved about 400%. Meteoric Static. When the earth swings through a swarm of meteors, radio waves go askew. The meteors ionize and rustle the Kennelly-Heaviside layer, radio's sounding board around the earth. -Dr. A. Meldon Skellet, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Electric Clocks, run by 60-cycles-per-second powerhouse current, are sufficiently accurate to operate astronomical telescopes. Dr. George Wilber Moffitt is using such a clock at Yerkes Observatory. Dr. Heber Doust Curtis will put one in at the Michigan Observatory...