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...several partners claimed was brand-new for railroad cars. Invented by William Van Dorn and Dr. F. C. Lindvall of California Institute of Technology, who have been working on the cars for the past two years in an abandoned Northrup Aviation hangar, the coaches are sprung on a "pendulum" principle by which four heavy vertical coil springs above each of the car's four axles fit into pockets in the body of the car (see cut). As the top of these is above the coach's low centre of gravity, the tendency of the body roll on curves...
Four events on the program consisted of firing at a pendulum target, out-lining an 'H', puncturing a poised beer can so as to let as much of the liquid as possible escape, and the grand duel tourney. In this event, won by Read, each man shoots at a paper model of his opponent, with the first to pierce his foe's heart declared the winner...
...there is the matter of finances. All the property of the University is in the name of the Corporation. They control all the University finances, and this control is subject to no veto power above. Thus, though the system of University government is one of checks and balances, the pendulum seems to be stuck far over on the side of the Corporation...
...Department's watches are as variegated as they are numerous, including electric clocks, a vacuum clock, pendulum clocks, and two chronometers. Last week several of them saw action for the first time in two years, in spite of the prevailing confusion among Astronomy 1 students concerning Sidereal Time, Greenwich Civil, Local Apparent, Greenwich Apparent, and Mean Time...
This seismograph is rugged enough to withstand severe quakes close to the observatory-an important consideration in California. An accurate time record of the earthquake waves is also important, however, and pendulum clocks of high accuracy are likely to be thrown out of kilter by strong temblors originating nearby. Dr. Benioff has now devised what he calls an "earthquake resistant time- piece"- a clock driven by a 1,000-cycle tuning fork, which is in turn driven by a fourstage amplifier. This apparatus is accurate to one-tenth of a second per day and Dr. Benioff was sure last week...