EXCURSIONS IN SCIENCE EDITED BY NEIL B. REYNOLDS General Electric Company AND ELLIS L. MANNING Supervisor of Science, New Fork State Department of Education New Tork WHITTLESEY HOUSE London MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, ING. PUBLISHED BY WHITTLESEY HOUSE A division of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by the Maple Press Co., Tork, Po. To WILLIS RODNEY WHITNEY VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF RESEARCH OF THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, THE EDITORS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATE THIS VOLUME PREFACE ...
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EXCURSIONS IN SCIENCE EDITED BY NEIL B. REYNOLDS General Electric Company AND ELLIS L. MANNING Supervisor of Science, New Fork State Department of Education New Tork WHITTLESEY HOUSE London MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, ING. PUBLISHED BY WHITTLESEY HOUSE A division of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by the Maple Press Co., Tork, Po. To WILLIS RODNEY WHITNEY VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF RESEARCH OF THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, THE EDITORS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATE THIS VOLUME PREFACE rnrio APPRECIATE music, one does not have to be a --virtuoso, or a performer at all for that matter. Indeed, it may be that the informed but nonprofes sional listener gains as much pure enjoyment from a concert as does the more critical student of musical technique. What is true of music, and of the other arts, may be, in its own fashion, equally true of science. We cannot ignore the results of science they lap us round, they shape and alter increasingly the course of our activi ties. Yet their origin is, to most of us, a mystery. This is our loss, for just as a laymans knowledge of the instruments that make up a symphony orchestra may sharpen his appreciation of its rendition whether of Beethovens Eroica or of the Rhapsody in Blue so a little knowledge of the scientists problems, his tools, and most of all his mental outlook may serve to sharpen our appreciation of the gifts science has to offer. Such knowledge is not beyond the grasp of anyone, for the materials with which the scientist deals are, after all, the things with which we are all most familiar. vii Preface Laboratory examination is only an extension in degree of intelligent observation. Scientific reasoningis nothing more than systematized common sense. In May, 1936, the General Electric Company instituted a radio program, called The Science Forum, designed to present the meaning, scope, and several purposes of modern scientific research and engineering in language that could be understood by the intelligent layman. As part of that program, workers in many fields of science were invited to present short talks on their particular fields of study. Because the material presented seemed too valuable to serve only the ephemeral purposes of the radio, the editors have gathered a selected group of these talks into this present form. Because, in each section that follows, we shall be venturing into a different field of scientific study under the guidance of a writer experi enced in that field, the name Excursions in Science has been chosen. These excursions follow no fixed itiner ary by intent they range from astronomy to physi ology, from atomic physics to archeology. The world about us is filled with interesting things to explore, and we want to visit as wide a variety of them as time and our appetite for adventure permit. A manuscript prepared for broadcasting is not always in a form most suitable for publication. The viii Preface talks have, therefore, in certain cases, been somewhat altered and abridged. But in every case it is the original author who speaks the opinions expressed are his. The editors are pleased to acknowledge their indebted ness to these authors, to the General Electric Company, and in particular to the General Electric Research Laboratory for aid in making possible these Excursions in Science. NEIL B. REYNOLDS, ELLIS L. MANNING. SCHENECTADY, N. Y. ix CONTENTS PAGE PREFACEvii SIMPLE EXPERIMENTS IN SCIENCE 3 by DR. IRVING LANGMUIR ATOMS AND THEIR FAMILY RELATIONS 1 1 by DR. E. G. ROCHOW WHERE HUMAN ENERGY COMES FROM 20 by-DR. JAMES W. MAYOR TIME 27 by DR. LEWI TONKS THE NATURE OF LIGHTNING 35 by DR. KARL B. MCEAGHRON THE MARKS ON YOUR THERMOMETER 43 by DR. FRANK R. ELDER METEORITES 50 by EDWARD S. C. SMITH ANIMAL LIGHT 57 by DR. LEWIS R. KOLLER EARS, HUMAN AND ELECTRIC 64 by ALBERT J. MUCHOW VACUUM 73 by EDWARD F. HENNELLY THE RED PLANET MARS 80 by DR. FREDERICK W...
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