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...Bovie G. '13, professor of biophysics at the Medical School, acting in conjunction with President C. C. Little '10 of the University of Maine, demonstrated yesterday at the University of Maine laboratories that ultraviolet rays obtained by the use of a fused quartz mercury vapor arc lamp are beneficial to health. These two scientists have been conducting a series of experiments with chickens, and their findings reveal important medical properties of this light...
Prof. H. Steenbock gave the details of his cure for rickets. He has succeeded in effecting this cure in rats by exposing the animals to violet rays from a quartz mercury lamp. He has, it is also believed, discovered a new vitamin in olive oil, helpful to those who have diabetes...
...meeting of the Harvard Wireless Club tonight, Mr. A. M. Hebert of the American Radio Relay League will discuss the subject of amateur radio while Mr. P. S. Bauer will demonstrate Professor G. P. Pierce's quartz crystal osscilator. The meeting will be in Crufts Laboratory at 7.30 o'clock...
...perfect conductor of light. Light from a match or pocket flash at one end of a fused quartz rod 25 feet long passed through the tube without appreciable loss of illumination. Further, the light travels intact through bent and twisted tubes, around corners, no matter how long or devious the way, just as a hose carries water...
...degrees Fahrenheit, increased but 1/50 inch in length. Platinum increases 1/3 inch when subjected to the same heat, and copper 3/5 inch. President S.W. Stratton, of M.I. T., former director of the Bureau of Standards, believes that all standards of length will now be made of fused quartz instead of platinum...