Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern physics, beams of light are considered as particles as well as waves, and beams of electrons are considered as waves as well as particles. A microscope using visible illumination is limited in magnifying power by the wave length of light. Particles considerably smaller than the wave length escape detection because they slip through the meshes of the light waves like BB shot through a tennis net. But electrons have wave lengths 100,000 times smaller than those of light, and electrons, although they cannot be focused by a lens, can be focused by electric or magnetic fields which...
...decade. Foundations of the technique were laid down in Germany in 1926-27. Other work has been done in Belgium and in the U. S. by Dr. Clinton Joseph Davisson of Bell Telephone Laboratories, who won a Nobel Prize in physics last year for experimentally demonstrating the wave nature of electrons. Some years ago, Astronomer Francois Charles Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory suggested that an electronic telescope (converting feeble starlight into electric current by means of photoelectric cells) could be built which would equal a 2,000-inch mirror telescope - ten times bigger than the 200-inch giant...
...Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri were published in LIFE. Francis D. Healy, elderly chairman of St. Louis's Municipal Art Commission, saw them and snorted that the fountain would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony" (TIME, Aug. 9). For Sculptor Milles' wave-naked Tritons, Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, suggested trousers. Finally the Star-Times took a poll of public opinion, found plenty of people who agreed with the two indignant commissioners about "art" which had no fully-dressed pioneers or Indians in it, only some foreign-looking nudes and inappropriate deep-sea fishes...
Royal Birthday Celebration (Thurs. 3 p.m., MBS). Trooping the Color for George VI. by short wave from London...
...some 1,500 residents of Shawneetown, Ill., sheltered behind their 60-foot flood wall, lost contact with Harrisburg, Ill., 23 miles away. The great Ohio Basin flood had cut them off from their nearest municipal neighbors and the world. As the flood waters rose, a Harrisburg ham (amateur short-wave operator), Robert Tompkins Anderson, volunteered to set up an observation post as near as he could get to Shawneetown and establish two-way radio communication with relief agencies that were trying to bring help...