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What is Dry Ice

Dry ice has already become a valuable refrigerant, and the reason is that its temperature stands some 112 below zero. Pound for pound it refrigerates fifteen times as much as common frozen water.

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Synthetic Sunshine

THE world need never go hungry as long as the sun shines. So the chemists have declared at the Institute of Politics, at Williamstown, Massachusetts; and since scientists say so, it must be so.
Food in the future, it appears, is to be obtained from the light of the sun and the nitrogen of the [...]

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Wireless Radio in 1924

WIRELESS offers more scope for enjoyment than any other hobby. This is a big claim, but any one who has cultivated wireless knows that it is a claim that can be supported by facts.
The one outstanding feature of wireless as a hobby is that it can be pursued anywhere, at any time. In dry summer [...]

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Atomic Energy

Scientific thinking on Atomic Energy in 1929
A fond dream of scientists – the hope of some day obtaining energy in tremendous quantities by releasing forces known to exist within the atoms of matter – was given a Christian burial on the recent occasion of the award to the scientists Michelson and Millikan of the gold [...]

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Fish Oil as Fuel for Car Engines 1927

COMING: THE FISH-OIL MOTOR
The possibility of farming the sea for motor-fuel, after all the oil and gasoline are gone, is indicated by studies of the use of fish oils and other animal oils as motor fuels reported to the French Academy of Sciences, in Paris, by Messrs. Georges Lumet and Henri Marcelet. Says Dr. E. [...]

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High Frequency Sound Waves 1925

SOUNDS TOO HIGH TO HEAR
SOUND-WAVES of too high a pitch to affect the ear have been produced and are likely to prove useful, we are told by an editorial writer in The Electrical World. Such waves, of course, are not sound in the strictest sense, for sound-waves are due to vibrations within the audibility range [...]

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Huge Broadcasting Vacuum Tube 1927

THE BIGGEST VACUUM TUBE
A ONE-HUNDRED-KILOWATT VACUUM power-tube is now in use at station WGY, Schenectady, New York, operated by the General Electric Company. This, it is asserted by the company in a press bulletin, is the first practical use of a tube of this size by any broadcasting station. The tube takes the place of [...]

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Meteorological Achievements 1929

METEOROLOGY 1929
by CHARLES FITZHUGH TALMAN
Librarian, U. S. Weather Bureau
THE aviator now is getting weather information along the principal commercial flight-ways   of  the world. As the information is supplied by radio broadcasts, it is available to the entire community, and it is found to have many useful applications altogether outside the domain of aeronautics.
Since July 1, [...]

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