Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test his theory, Pierce and Arthur Whitson, a co-worker at California's Stanford Research Institute, spent''four weekends in four different bathrooms. After setting up a field mill-a device that measures the electric field in the atmosphere-they turned showers on and off, flushed toilets, and opened and closed doors. Then, with complex formulas, formal scientific language and elaborate graphs, Pierce straightforwardly presented their observations at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington...
...barely noticeable charge when a toilet is flushed. Water that falls into an empty tub produces a higher charge than when it bubbles into a filled one. Splashing water was not the only electrical-field generator noted by the scientists. The highest charge, measured by a field mill installed in a bathroom being used by guests at a cocktail party, occurred when a cocktail waitress combed out her hip-length hair. Though the bathroom observations have no apparent practical applications, they did suggest a conclusion. "It may be," speculated Pierce, "that the bracing effect of a shower is not because...
Arons' sweeping course ranges from Galileo and Faraday to Voltaire and John Stuart Mill. He starts his lectures by locking the door at the opening bell ?to encourage promptness, he says; to keep the kids from fleeing, they say. As he carefully shows how a scientific theory can affect man's own view of himself, and requires students to explain such notions as velocity and inertia in their own words, the relevance hits them. The course, recalls Amherst Graduate Evan Snyder, "was absolute hell?but one of the most valuable intellectual experiences I've been through." One student slipped...
...also likely that RGA will oppose the Rules Committee requirement that freshmen ask their head residents for any permissions after 1 a.m., Mill Wilson said. They will probably suggest that freshmen also be allowed to ask their dorm presidents, or any member of the student dorm committee, she said...
...havoc of bombs and battle in Viet Nam has also made a market for other supplies. South Viet Nam, in spite of the war, still exports rice to both India and Japan. In return, India has sold it irrigation pumps and sugar-mill machinery, while in other Asian countries factories are busy sewing pajamas for Vietnamese war refugees. A Korean construction firm recently won a $5,000,000 contract to dredge five Vietnamese harbors. Taiwan is contracting to ship $2,000,000 worth of two different kinds of gravel, one to be used in building runways and the other...