Life in the 1920s » Science http://1920-30.com/blog Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:42:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 What is Dry Ice http://1920-30.com/blog/what-is-dry-ice/ http://1920-30.com/blog/what-is-dry-ice/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:29:48 +0000 admin http://1920-30.com/blog/?p=421 Continue reading →]]> http://1920-30.com/blog/what-is-dry-ice/feed/ 0 Synthetic Sunshine http://1920-30.com/blog/synthetic-sunshine/ http://1920-30.com/blog/synthetic-sunshine/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:09:39 +0000 admin http://1920-30.com/blog/?p=404

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 air. Proteins and carbohydrates-those elements of nutri... continued here

]]> http://1920-30.com/blog/synthetic-sunshine/feed/ 0 Wireless Radio in 1924 http://1920-30.com/blog/wireless-radio-in-1924/ http://1920-30.com/blog/wireless-radio-in-1924/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 09:39:29 +0000 admin http://1920-30.com/blog/?p=391 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 weather or in the depths of winter, in brilliant daylig... continued here

]]> http://1920-30.com/blog/wireless-radio-in-1924/feed/ 0 Atomic Energy http://1920-30.com/blog/atomic-energy/ http://1920-30.com/blog/atomic-energy/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:44:58 +0000 admin http://1920-30.com/blog/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 medal of the Societ... continued here

]]> http://1920-30.com/blog/atomic-energy/feed/ 0 Tidal Waves 1925 http://1920-30.com/blog/tidal-waves-1925/ http://1920-30.com/blog/tidal-waves-1925/#comments Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:59:00 +0000 admin http://1920-30.com/blog/tidal-waves-1925/ A STUDY OF TIDAL-WAVES by Professor Vaillaux, a French authority, is given in The World’s Health, the organ of the International Red Cross (Paris). Says this writer: The determination of the causes of this phenomenon, which often produces terrible loss of life and property, is especially difficult in view of the difficulties of observation. T... continued here

]]> http://1920-30.com/blog/tidal-waves-1925/feed/ 0 The Early Days of Television http://1920-30.com/blog/the-early-days-of-television/ http://1920-30.com/blog/the-early-days-of-television/#comments Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:34:21 +0000 admin http://1920-30.com/blog/?p=7 Television was first demonstrated in 1926 but at a much lower resolution than we use today. Early experimenters even recorded television onto discs, of which a small number have survived down to the present - and we thought that video discs were a much more modern invention! The latest addition to our web-site is an information page on early ... continued here

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