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Physicist Vernon Rossow likens a tornado to the rotor of an electrostatic motor, which turns as it transfers electric charges between a positive and a negative electrode. Much the same happens, he theorizes, when a region of positively charged water droplets form near another region of negatively charged droplets in storm clouds...
...test his theory, Rossow passed a mixture of steam and cool air between two oppositely charged wire grids in his laboratory at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. As the cold air condensed the steam into visible droplets, a tiny, 4-in.-high tornado came into view. But when voltage was removed from the grids, the miniature whirlwind promptly died away...
After Builder Einar Rossow put up the Oiseau Bleu (Blue Bird) apartment house, the screech of more than 50 jets a day at the nearby Nice airport discouraged prospective tenants. The Blue Bird's builder sued Air France, the major noisemaker. At takeoff, the government-controlled airline did not think it was in for much turbulence. Air France simply argued that the proper party to sue was the Nice chamber of commerce, which runs the airport. "We just land where we are told," said the airline. What's more, the builder had taken a deliberate risk: nestled...
Unhappily for the airline, France has yet to ratify that treaty. As a result, Plaintiff Rossow was able to rely on a 1924 French law that says: "The right of an aerial vehicle to fly over private property cannot be exercised in such conditions as to interfere with the rights of the proprietor." Those rights, said the plaintiff, were clearly violated since the jets created a 115-decibel din, a nerve-snapping 45 decibels above what scientists say humans can tolerate. To the airline's shock a court of appeals upheld Rossow, noting only that any lack of effort...
...sustained 50 yard march right after the opening kickoff. Quarterback Walt Greeley, unable to hand off to a halfback, stumbled over the goal line for what seemed like the first score. But the Crimson was offside and on the next play Albert carried ten yards for the score. Al Rossow, aided by a Dean offside that gave him a second chance, kicked the first of his three conversions...