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...inventive genius of his Grandfather Cooper. The late, great Michael Pupin marveled not only at the imaginative brilliance of his mind but also at his extraordinary physical grace, especially marked in the deftness of his hands. Rich and unorthodox in his methods, he invented the widely-used mercury vapor lamp, discovered the basic principle of the vacuum-tube amplifier, made many an other prime contribution to electricity and radio. He also pioneered in the development of hydro-airplanes, speedboats, aerial torpedoes, heliocopters. He died in 1921. Peter Cooper Hewitt's only child was a daughter, Ann Cooper Hewitt, born...
...once, the search for clouds, definite proof of the existence of water vapor, began. The presence of certain white spots was explained away by one astronomer as nothing more than mountains reaching the plausible elevation of two miles. This could not explain the phenomenon witnessed at the Lowell Observatory on the evening of May 26, 1903 however...
...Mars at once caught the fancy of many astronomers of the period and Porcival Lowell '76, in particular began an intensive study of the planet. Spectroscopic comparisons of the planet and the Moon by Dr. Silpher at the Lowell Observatory gave what seemed to be decisive evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere...
...Labor, are seldom either successful or rich in accomplishment. Prime reason is that the Federation has for the past decade tried vainly to digest a vast hodge-podge of fundamental contradictions, with the result that most of its public acts belch forth in a fantastic vapor of inconsistency, incoherence, ineffectually. This dyspepsia gets the Federation into many an impolite predicament, not the least embarrassing of which occurred early at last week's seaside gathering...
More cheerful was Phillips Petroleum Co., which more than a year ago instituted a fifth advance in gasoline manufacture. Gasoline was first made by boiling oil, next by squeezing gasoline vapor out of natural gas ("casing-head process"), later by distillation of crude oil ("cracking"), finally by hydrogenation. The Phillips process was polymerization-formation of heavy molecules from light ones with heat, pressure, catalysts (chemical activators). By this method lightweight derivatives formerly wasted or diverted to by-products are made into high-grade fuel. Trade papers pointed out that if all gaseous hydrocarbons produced in cracking were utilized...