Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Naval College in fogbound Dartmouth, the strangest ship in the world is being fitted out this week for a series of voyages that are to take her, within the next few years, to many an out-of-the-way corner of the seas. She is the Royal Research Ship Research, a trim 770-ton brigantine. Chief job of naval and civilian scientists, to be quartered in her midships, will be to chart magnetic variations, compare their readings with those taken by the Carnegie Institution's Carnegie before she blew up while taking on gasoline in Apia, Samoa...
...varies because the magnetic pole moves. No one knows why and no one knows precisely how much. Scientists do know that since famed Astronomer Edmund Halley first made his chart of variations, A.D. 1700, the variation in England has changed by more than 37°. Seaman-scientists of the Research are not sure they will discover the reason for the annual changes. But they will determine the amount of change by comparing their readings with those taken by the Carnegie more than ten years...
Mariners who correct their compasses for variation also have to correct them for deviation, a local error caused by magnetic metals (chiefly iron, steel) in their own craft. The Research is unique because she is nonmagnetic in every possible detail, will have infinitesimal local deviation errors. A throwback to the wooden-ship days, she has a hull of teak, bolts, girders and anchor chain of aluminum bronze. Her cooking utensils and tableware are aluminum; her four Diesels (three for auxiliary power, one for propulsion in calms) are of bronze and aluminum. Her only steel is in their crankshafts and cylinders...
Word has come from Princeton that in addition to Senators Sherman Minton and Millard E. Tydings, Senator Robert Reynolds of North Carolina has accepted the invitation to attend the two days of conferences. Dr. George Gallup, noted scientific sampling expert and Director of the Gallup Institute for Public Research, has also signified his desire to attend. He will participate in Table V, on Pressure Groups in a Democracy...
...Shanghai from Japan flew Quentin Roosevelt, 19, grandson of the late President, to take off for a one-man expedition into Yunnan Province. Sophomore Roosevelt, on leave of absence from Harvard, expects to find rare manuscripts, skulls, golden monkey furs, hopes his plunder will be considered research work, enabling him to graduate with his class...