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Long Shots. In Washington, D. C., William Fox was given a license to use a special wavelength for recording sound-shots over long distances. A Fox company, taking a singing picture in the Fiji Islands, prepared to send their work to Hollywood by radio...
...than the dashboard in his cockpit to stay on his course. Inventor Jenkins proposed to equip land lighthouses such as those now winking over the Alleghenies with automatic radio transmitters, each unit costing only $250 and manageable by the present lighthouse attendants. Each station would broadcast on a short wavelength measured to light up a wireless light bulb in the cockpit of a passing plane. Darkness, fog, rain, sleet or snow have virtually no effect on radio waves. But distance lessens their strength. If a pilot started straying off his course, the bulb on his dashboard, a "pilot light" indeed...
...horizons, the humbler scientists become, their thought having undergone a long evolution similar to the growth of religious thought from tribal superstition, through literal anthropomorphism, to transcendent spirituality. . . . Simultaneously with my third lecture, Swiss scientists corroborated and added to my recent findings on mysterious rays of excessively short wavelength which impinge upon the earth from the surrounding universe...
...level, then flew them far aloft by kites, finally lowering them to a considerable depth in the pure waters of a high-altitude lake.* And their conclusions, announced last week, paralleled Dr. Millikan's: bombarding the earth from the surrounding universe are some hitherto unknown rays, of submicroscopic wavelength, which far surpass even the gamma rays of radium in their power to penetrate matter. They will pass through a block of steel three feet thick, through six feet of lead...
...respectively, he detected a presence fainty visible between them. Bringing them further out into the open-he was working with X-rays and used delicate refining methods to isolate the two metals that he wished to examine more closely-he clearly beheld this intervening shadow. It appeared in the wavelength spectra of Nos. 60 and 62 as a line that belonged to neither yet was identical in both. Forthwith, though he had no lump of new metal in his hand, he was able to announce that be had discovered Element No. 61-one of the five unknowns predicted by Science...