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...credited with having saved thoroughbred racing when it was at its lowest ebb in the East, after the repeal of the racing law in New York State. He was Chairman of ihe Jockey Club, founder of Belmont Park (famed Long Island track), owner of many celebrated horses?Rock Sand, Norman III, Tracery, Man o' War, Ladkin. These swift beasts wore his famed colors?scarlet, maroon sleeves, black cap?to victory. His greatest regret was that he sold Man o' War to S. D. Riddle, under whose ownership he developed into the "fastest horse since Pegasus." Last fall (TIME...
Captain L. I. Eagle and Lieut. W. E. Melville, piloting two De Haviland airplanes, climbed to 13,000 feet, made a heavy strata of cumulus clouds their objective. Spectators saw them disappear. Then they suddenly broke through, as the cloud disintegrated under the shower of electrified sand discharged through nozzles set in the under portion of the fuselage. The aviators described a circle above the cloud bank and their maneuver was duplicated by a clean-cut pathway through the mist. "A miracle!" cried some of the watchers...
...Warren, he is not a Doctor, has no official relations with the University. Mr. Warren though of the original idea and came to ask Professor Chaffee's advice. The Government became interested in the proposition and undertook to finance it. Professor Chaffee then began research work to determine if sand particles could be electrically charged, and if so what was the most practicable method of obtaining this charge. All of these experiments were carried on by Professor Chaffee at the Cruft Laboratory at the University with the help of Mr. R. O. Chaffee '17. the two brothers invented a revolving...
...work is based on the assumption that visible forms of moisture in the air, such as mists, clouds, and fogs, are a form of colloidal suspension in gases and should be governed by the same general laws that prevail in colloidal action in liquids and solids. The sand tanks on the airplanes are flied with 120 mesh silica sand. When a cloud in found to have a negative charge positively charged particles are scattered at the extreme top; when the cloud has a positive charge negatively charged sand particles are scattered at the extreme top; and if the cloud...
...closing Professor Chaffee said that, although it might be possible to cause rain to fall by the use of the electrified sand, no real proof of this had as yet been obtained. He said it might be possible to produce rain in regions where large moisture clouds were present at fairly low altitudes, but that it would be absolutely impossible to produce rain under any other condition