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...German chemist Walther Nernst explains why absolute zero (about -273[degrees]C) can never be reached; this becomes the third law of thermodynamics...
Died. Dr. Hermann Walther Nernst, 77, inventor of the Nernst metallic filament lamp, link between the carbon lamp and the modern incandescent lamp; in Muskau, Germany...
...which Bechstein put on the market last week. Combination piano, spinet, harmonium, phonograph and radio receiver, it is no madman's dream, no impractical curiosity, but a precise, scientific musical instrument, substituting electrical apparatus for the standard piano sounding-board. The electrical engineering is the work of Walther Nernst, German physicist: electrical equipment by Siemens & Halske A. G.; pianobuilding by C. Bechstein. "Claviphone" is one of the names suggested for it. Principle is. simply, that microphones pick up the vibrations, fundamental tones and overtones of the strings and transmit them to a loudspeaker. Encased in a box of standard...
Upper registers of the "Claviphone," it is claimed, are an improvement over those of an ordinary piano, long a problem to engineers. Says Inventor Nernst: "My friend Einstein, who, you know, is very musical, says they [high piano notes] sound like porcelain getting smashed...
...audience remained, wondered what the meat was. They thought it most probable that he had adopted the idea of an expanding Universe. Other famed scientists who also have adopted it: Harlow Shapley of Harvard Astronomical Observatory; Walter Nernst of the University of Berlin. Most vehement exponent is Sir James Hopwood Jeans, British physicist...