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There are masses of goats, and a polar, and different kinds of mouse
...Einthoven's device records the fluctuations of this current by means of two wires of quartz, so fine that they are invisible even under a microscope, unless thrown into relief by light against a dark background. These wires are threaded across the magnetic field formed between the polar ends of an electromagnet. In each pole of the magnet is screwed a microscope, one lending light, the other enlargement. Rubber manacles are placed over the wrists of the patient. Under each manacle is a salt pad (electric conductor) from which a wire runs, bearing the current of the body...
When the Shenandoah broke loose some months ago from its mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J, and avoided destruction by supreme skill, cautious Mr. Coolidge vetoed all plans for a Polar flight. Now that the U. S. has two large dirigibles in its possession, and such perfect command of both ships has been demonstrated again and again, there is revived talk of the expedition. General Mason M. Patrick in fact wants the ZR3 transferred to the Army, and a race between ZR3 and Shenandoah "to either the North or the South Pole." There would be sufficient thrill to a polar...
...down to a sufficient depth to have the heat pumped out. It is not a commercial project and there is no money to be made out of it by myself or any one else but, from a scientific standpoint, it should be undertaken as something equally as important as polar exploration. The spot where the shaft should be sunk ought to be determined by geologists...
...rigors of man. In his native Christiania, he filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy and asked for a public receivership, believing that he is solvent. Some time ago (TIME, July 7, AERONAUTICS) he was unable to pay for two airplanes which he had ordered for a polar flight...