Word: x
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unwanted DO-X. Soon after her arrival in the U. S. last August the giant flying boat DO-X was beached at Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y. for overhaul of her twelve engines.. There she has remained while Dornier officials tried without success to interest U. S. groups in chartering the boat for coastwise service. Last week it was announced that the DO-X will be flown back to Germany in May. Meanwhile her commander, Capt. Franz Christiansen, and all but two members of her crew sailed to Germany for a vacation...
...Them" referred particularly to Professor Jacob Papish of Cornell, who last autumn recognized eka-cesium with the x-ray spectrograph. With an x-ray spectrograph Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois discovered the third last unknown element, No. 61, of the Periodic Table, which he named illinium (TIME, March...
...three young men projected radium's beta (high speed electrons) and gamma (penetrating X-rays) rays out of that mica window. Left for duplication were radium's alpha particles, the nucleus of helium...
...shape of an invisible barn might be determined by throwing a million baseballs at it and studying the number of balls which hit it and the angles at which they bounce off. That is the way physicists have determined the structure of the atom. Pellets have been radium particles, X-rays and, lately, cosmic rays. Inability to control available ammunition has been the great handicap...
...prize to the ingenious young men.) Their machine consists essentially of a tesla coil under oil and a cascading cathode tube. The coil builds up an electrical potential to 3,000,000 volts. That enormous power is suddenly dumped into what is basically a series of X-ray tubes ending in a mica window...