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Approximately one and a half tons for equipment, including a 20-inch reflecting telescope, loaned by the college observatory, along with radio-metric and photometric instruments were shipped from Boston about the first part of this month, and will have arrived in Sumatra by the time the observers land there on December...
...determined drive on behalf of the metric system will be made by the Pan American Standardization Conference, which is to meet at Léma, Peru, in November. From Washington it was last week announced that Secretary of Commerce Hoover is one of those who think that the nations of the world would be more amicable were their ways of weighing and measuring the same. Said Mr. Hoover: "It may well be set forth, as a truism, that it is impossible to maintain proper standards of ethical conduct throughout business and industry without a proper background of recognized physical standards...
...teaching arithmetic, criteria of social utility should supplant old formal doctrine. "Useless processes": derivation of cube roots; common divisors and least common multiple beyond the power of inspection, metric system, troy and apothecary weights, complex and compound fractions, annual and compound interests...
...springs are situated at Bacau, Bazeu, Dambovita and Prahova. The output of oil has risen from 250,000 metric tons in 1900 to 1,508,829 metric tons...
...sale, but is leased for $200 down and $5 a month to Abrams graduates who will sign a contract not to open the apparatus. Other Abrams devices are the " electro-concussor;" the " biodynamometer," for determining "the potentiality of human energy;" the " sphygmobiometer," which demonstrates the " wave-metric index " of liquids and minerals and is used as a divining-rod for locating subterranean oil; the " electro-bioscope;" the " reflexo-phone," a loud speaker arrangement which makes sounds indicative of certain diseases. Dr. Abrams predicts that these machines will be perfected to the point where people can stand on street corners, drop...