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...seven-millionth visitor had his ticket punched at the Paris Exposition of 1937 last week and experts agreed it was rapidly reaching historic rank with the great French expositions of the past. Greatest of these was Paris 1900, attended by thirty-nine millions before closing day. but a worthy successor was Paris 1931 with thirty-three and a half millions. On May 23 only four pavilions were ready when Paris 1937 was "inaugurated" by sad-eyed, droop-mustached French President Albert Lebrun, but last week 160 pavilions were complete and the Exposition was all but finished. Wiseacres agreed that...
Last week Dr. Langmuir talked about stearic acid, a substance found in animal fat, which makes a monomolecular film one ten-millionth of an inch thick. This turned out to be an extremely sensitive detector for atoms of metal in water. If the metal atoms are jostled around by stirring the water, they will soon strike the underside of the film, adhere to it. The film is skimmed from the water, allowed to contract. If it contains no metal, when viewed by polarized light it will give a double refraction effect in handsome colors. But if there were only...
Still another question which it is hoped 1937 will uncover is that of the tiny dust particles floating through space, which account for many of the unusual qualities of light. They range in size from one ten thousandth of an inch to one ten millionth...
...Also it had curved to the left. In that magnetic field only a positively charged particle could be traveling upward and curving to the left. In all features the particle was the "anti-electron," the mathematical "hole" imagined by Dirac. Its life was brief-about a third of a millionth of a second. But Karl Kelchner Darrow of Bell Telephone Laboratories later pronounced it "probably the most famous individual corpuscle in the history of physics." Dr. Anderson called his discovery the positive electron, or positron...
...multipactor is turned on, random electrons are driven against the cold sides of the tube, loosing more electrons which bounce back & forth between the walls setting free still other electrons. All this happens so quickly that the current is amplified a million times in less than one-millionth of a second...