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...TORKEL WEIS-FOGH will deliver the third in his series of lectures, "Elastic Materials, Power Economy, and Nervous Control of Flight" in Burr...
...TORKEL WEIS-FOGH will discuss "The Wing Muscles and the Chemical Machinery for Flight," a sequel to his talk on Tuesday, in Burr...
...TORKEL WEIS-FOGH, John M. Prather Lecturer on Biology, will discuss "Principles of Flapping Flight and the Call for Power" in Burr...
Goldbugs have a new prospecting tool: the horsetail weed (Equisetum arvense) which grows abundantly across the U. S. and Canada. When it grows in soil with a gold content, it hungrily absorbs the metal. Last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg of Toronto told the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers that for some time Canadian prospectors had been locating gold by burning a clump of horsetail, analyzing the ashes...
...Manhattan last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg told how he had made a complete magnetic survey of the whole Meteor Crater area. Mr. Lundberg is president of his own company in Toronto, but he is working at present for someone else, who prefers to remain anonymous. Using sensitive variometers (containing magnetic needles responding to large masses of metal), he went over the ground, made a "magnetic profile." This showed two humps several hundred feet southwest of the rim, the larger covering an area 2,000 by 1,500 ft. He believes that the meteoritic clumps corresponding to these humps...