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Sporting princes are not the monopoly of Britain. Last week, in Bucharest, Crown Prince Carol jumped into his racing automobile, clapped on his goggles, slipped in his clutch and shot off with the speed of a well-oiled wavelength. Precisely, he was contending with 22 others in a race...
...many types of vibrations in the ether about them, the unaided human senses can perceive only a small portion. The spectrum of visible light runs from deep violet, with a wavelength of 16 millionths of an inch, down to deep red, with waves 28 millionths of an inch long. On the "ultra" side of this spectrum, occur the ultraviolet rays with waves 1 millionth of an inch; then a range of little-known shorter vibrations; then the famed X-rays; then, shortest of all known rays, the gamma rays given off by radium. On the infra or long wave side...
...discoverer of synthetic sugar, has a receipt: Make a little formaldehyde out of carbon dioxide and water, expose it to intensely active ultraviolet light, and you have sugar. Genuine glucose has been made 'by this process, but before such can become a breakfast-table commodity the proper wavelength of the violet ray must be ascertained. It is roughly gauged at from 200 to 220 millimicrons.- If all the land were bread and cheese, and all the sea were ink, what would we do for gasoline? This was the general proposition discussed by T. A. Boyd and C. M. Larson...
...United Broadcasting Co. of Italy. It is a coalition of a number of companies, chief of which are the Sirac (Hammond), Radiofono (Marconi), Italian Western Electric and Radio Araldo (owned 'by a banking group). The coalition is to build three radiocasting stations. One at Milan with 395 metre wavelength, one at Rome with 425 metre wavelength and one at Taranto or Messina with 455 metre wavelength...
...Long-distance relaying is usually done by "stepping up" the wavelength of the transmitting stations from a wavelength of a few hundred metres to several thousand metres, by vacuum tube amplifiers. These waves travel much more rapidly and, without losing their power, activate the antennae of the relay stations, which again transform them into a shorter wavelength" for amateur reception...