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...average six-room home." Savings on cleaning and replacements are substantial; savings on health cannot be figured although the Precipitron catches pollen and bacteria. Not even tobacco smoke, which has the finest particles found in the air (16,000 side by side are no wider than a pinhead), escapes its electrical filter...
...instance, some of the seven stars that can be measured by instruments would make the sun look like a pinhead by comparison, the great red star Antares having a diameter 400 times that of our sun-star...
...switching a big part of their vast productive machinery to making implements of war, G.M. and Ford (like Chrysler) have gone in for a more bewildering variety of products than they ever made before. News stories of the two shows were crammed with lists and statistics, from pinhead-sized ball bearings to four-motored bombers, passed over the new automobiles with a once-over-lightly...
...will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North Sea via the Caledonian Canal; 2) a hippopotamus; 3) a 50-ft. prehistoric reptile with a whiskery pinhead and eight scaly humps; 4) a giant squid; 5) "an abomination with a three-arched neck"; 6) a cold-blooded crocodile; 7) a cool fabrication...
Electrons make impressions on photographic emulsions just as light particles do. Using a magnification factor of 20,400, the Siemens & Halske scientists obtained pictures of the pus germ, Staphylococcus aureus, as big as pennies. In photographs with ordinary high-power microscopes, such germs show up pinhead-size...