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...Majesty went to a public bath with his chauffeur and six detectives, booked his own ticket at the wicket. Handing this to an Austrian bathwoman who did not recognize him, the King was scrubbed and, with his chauffeur and detectives all in a state of nature, walked about the vapor room where His Majesty was recognized by goggle-eyed Austrian bathers...
Ancient mariners regarded waterspouts as dragons, tried to disperse them by stamping their feet, shouting, beating drums, clashing swords. When gunpowder came into use, sailors tried to break the columns by shooting cannon. The spouts are chiefly vapor but may contain fresh water condensed from the cloud or salt water sucked up from the sea. Like tornadoes they are atmospheric vortices caught by conflicting air currents, with partial vacuums at their cores. In general, however, they are much less violent than the average tornado, do damage only by dropping their loads of water. If a land tornado passed...
...technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum off an electric coil so that the aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins Dr. Wood used the same method for laying down on his plates first a thin coat of hard chromium, then a layer of soft aluminum. To make diffraction gratings the diamond point had to cut only through the aluminum skin. Last week...
...material to be centrifuged is placed in a tiny windowed cell in the rim of the disk. What goes on in the cell while the machine is spinning can be seen by stroboscopic light-extremely rapid, brief flashes from a mercury vapor arc. The flashes are timed to illuminate the cell at precisely the same point of every revolution and thus the cell appears motionless. A Zeiss camera nine feet long is trained on it to take pictures...
...Cincinnati Vice President Thomas A. Carothers of National Marking Machine Co. described his company's device which prints invisible laundry marks. The invisible ink used comes to view only under the light of a mercury vapor lamp...