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Highs & Lows. The procedure is called thermography, and Dr. R. Bowling Barnes, president of Barnes Engineering Corp., which developed the camera, describes the picture taken on photographic film as a "thermal map of the skin." The instrument does not ir radiate the subject in any way. Instead, it scans the body surface for six to twelve minutes to register the invisible infra-red rays emitted by the body itself. Where blood concentrates close to the surface-in veins, infections or abnormally rapid growths-the skin runs a higher temperature and the thermogram shows a light spot. Where there are areas...
...take advantage of this new dispensation was Paleface Sam Banowit, who trekked out from Chicago, took a look at the spring, and committed $1,000,000 to the proposition that the flow of water could be enlarged sufficiently for a public bathhouse. When the drilling yielded enough thermal stuff to float the Spanish Armada, Sam had the water filtered through 20 miles of pipes and stored underground, to be eventually released into outdoor and indoor immersion and swirlpool baths...
...that we know about the moon has come to us in visible sunlight, reflected from the moon toward the earth. There are other, longer waves that travel invisibly between the moon and the earth, which can add knowledge about our satellite: the infrared, or radiated heat, rays. Although thermal photography is not new, the Harvard College Observatory has recently built one of the most sensitive instruments in existence for making thermal "pictures" of the moon...
...moon's thermal profile will be compared with a conventional map of the moon to see of any correlation exists between the temperature variations and such surface features as mountains, "seas," and craters...
...keep them aloft. But in 1921, gliding down a slope in the Rhon Mountains, a German airman noticed a flock of storks suddenly shooting upward more than 1,200 ft. without so much as flapping a wing. He turned toward the birds-and found himself wafted higher in a thermal updraft, a chute of warm air that rises in an invisible column from the earth's surface...