Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four days previously the members of the Power Conference were invited behind a board fence next to a garage on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution, there to see a solar engine which Secretary Charles G. Abbott, of the Institution, perfected to a point where it could produce power as cheaply as coal at $3 a ton. Unfortunately the engine "burnt out a bearing" an hour or two before the visitors arrived. President Gano Dunn of J. G. White Engineering Corp. pointed out to them that if the surface of the lake behind Boulder Dam were covered with such engines...
...toddled nearby. On a chair lay an euphonium, a tuba-like brass horn which Mr. von Schilling had borrowed from a friend. Suddenly Father von Schilling heard a soft beep from the big euphonium, saw that Son Stanwurt was not only blowing into it but blowing correctly from the solar plexus rather than from the chest. Von Schilling leaped to a piano, struck an F and B flat which the child immediately echoed. Musician von Schilling cried to his wife: "Mother, I've got a euphonium player...
When the moon eclipsed the sun last week and whipped a band of shadow across Asia (TIME, June 22), the foremost U. S. specialist on solar radiation, Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Rochester, N. Y. showing members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a cartoon of himself. The sketch: big-mustached, ponderous Dr. Abbot sitting atop California's Mount Wilson with an "Abbot sun and moon measurer," while a little bear points to a Hollywood constellation of stars among which a chunky one represents Mae West...
...Abbot, 64, told how a policeman once tried to arrest lanky Marine Biologist William Beebe for probing in a snow bank for a dead goldfish. He gave a whistling imitation of an Algerian shepherd boy whom he once heard while searching Algeria for a cloudless site for a solar observatory. He concluded with a baritone rendition of a sea ditty about "a ship that went for to sail with a whale at its tail...
Weather on earth depends upon radiations from the sun. Dr. Abbot receives in his Washington office telegraph and cable reports of the sun's condition as recorded at three solar observatories which the U. S. maintains on Table Mountain, Calif.; Mount St. Catherine, Egypt; Mount Montezuma, Chile. Last week he told the scientists in Rochester that he expected $200,000 from Congress to erect seven more solar observatories. President Roosevelt had written a longhand letter to Senator Joseph Robinson urging the appropriation, said Dr. Abbot...