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THIS 75 ton steel yoke is part of the new, high pressure cloud chamber to be used by scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory to> study

high velocity particles. The cloud chamber, placed within the hollow cylinder in the center of the yoke, will operate under higher and have a greater magnetic field than any other instrument of its kind in the world. This huge research tool was designed by Dr. T. H. Jo|," son and Dr. R. P. Shutt of Brookhaven and was built by the Bethlehem Steel Company of Pennsylvania.

Cosmic Ray Equipment for BrookhavenThe core for the magnet assembly

o f a large Wilson cloud chamber— 70 tons of carefully forged and ma­chined steel—has just been shipped to Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Long Island, from the Beth­lehem plant of Bethlehem Steel Company it was announced today.

The chamber, which was designed by Dr. T. H. Johnson and Dr. R. P. Shijtt of the Brookhaven scientific staff in cooperation with Bethlehem engineers, will be the largest instru­ment of its kind in existence. When completed next summer it will be used in cosmic ray studies and later it will be operated in conjunction with the three billion volt proton accelerator now under construction at Brookhaven.

Study of the cosmic ray, discover­ed early in the century, today oc­cupies the attention of a great many nuclear scientists. The rays are in­visible, electrically charged particles from interstellar space, which strike our planet with energies far in ex ­cess of anything ever produced in the laboratory.

The device most commonly used in the study of these rays is the W il­son cloud chamber, a small compart­ment filled with water-saturated gas under high presure. As a charged particle passes through the chamber it leaves a trail of water vapor simi­lar in appearance to that outlining the path of a stratosphere plane on a cold day, hence the name cloud chamber.

The trail, when properly illumin­

ated, can be photographed through a window in the chamber. By plac­ing the chamber in a strong mag­netic field, the straight-line trail may be bent into a graceful curve. From the curvature and other phe­nomena occurring during -the pas­sage of the ray, as shown on the photographs taken, the physicist is able to draw many important con­clusions regarding the nature, size, and charge of the particles, as well as about the forces which bind nu­clear particles together.

The new Brookhaven chamber will be 16 inches in diameter and 6 inches deep. It w ill be placed in­side a non-magnetic steel cylinder, around which will be the seventy- ton magnet core supporting in turn a number of copper coils weighing ten tons. To produce the magnetic field a strong electric current of 12,000 amperes w ill be passed through the coils from a battery of four diesel-driven generators.

The Brookhaven chamber will operate at a pressure of 300 atmos­pheres, or approximately 4,500 lbs. per square inch, and the particles passing through it w ill be slowed up to an extent where it will be pos­sible to study relatively long sec­tions of track and to observe phe­nomena o f comparatively rare oc­currences. The chamber is designed to be 3,000 times more effective than the more conventional cloud cham­bers which operate at normal pres­sures.

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If spring comes, winter cannot be far behind — or so it might have been written; for just as we think spring has arrived, then winter re­turns with biting wind and swirl of snow. But nothing daunted, green buds shine on snow laden branches o f spirea and the red flowers of swamp maple brighten a snowy landscape. Soon, however, snow melts and winds diminish to sooth­ing whisper, and spring returns.

As the snow disappears we find the grass has grown greener on the lawn, and in the woods the hepatica is blooming in the lee of an oak tree. The phoebe has arrived on schedule.

After skunk cabbage that pushes its blunt head through winter slush to greet spring, hepatica is the first flower of the season. i t is often found blooming beneath snow— this dainty, delicately tinted flower. And unlike the malodorous skunk cab­bage the hepatica has a faint per­fume that introduces the fragrance as well as the color o f spring.

This is one- flower that is never confused with another, as there is no other with which to confuse it. Yet the hepatica does its best to make a company in its variety of color and size. It may be blue, laven­der,* pinkish or white. Large or small. And it may have six petals or twelve. Indeed, the hepatica is a most versatile flower. Yet by its three-lobed leaf, like a one-piece clover leaf, you know the hepatica regardless of the color or form it assumes. “ Gem of the woods,” John Burroughs called it. •

While everybody is watching for the first robin, and this early bird enjoys headlines in the newspaper along with the vernal equinox, the phoebe arrives — without notice or headlines. And he had made the long and perilous journey from southern United States or Mexico through late winter snow and storm.

For some reason the phoebe does not enjoy the popularity of the robin; perhaps because his gray coat is not so colorful as the robin’s bright v e s t and h is plaintive "phoebe-phoebe” is not so musical as the robin’s pleasant warble. But he is neighborly and industrious and deserves our interest.

In the early days of America the phoebe nested under a ledge or in any cranny that afforded protection from the weather, but when a set­tler built his house in the vicinity the phoebe moved right in with him; and since that time the eaves of a house or the crannies of a barn have been his favorite nest­ing sites.

The robin too, thinks civilization is fine. He goes wherever man goes. He follows the plow and hovers near the hoe in the interest of earth­worms and similar prey. He finds also that nesting near houses has its advantages. Hawks and owls do not venture near the honeysuckle on the verandah or the linden tree near the living room window where the robin chooses to place his nest, and a house shields a nest from the violence of a spring storm.

Then too, humans make pretty good neighbors, lending a hand in time of need.

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Becomes Thriv ing IndustryFirst simple handmade pottery

was hardened by drying in the sun. Fingers shaped the vessels of clay. Different districts provided differ­ent colors of clay, and so color dec­oration was discovered. This is the basis on which all pottery of the previous 4,000 years was built—thtf primitive foundation on which all Egyptian, Chinese and Greek pot­tery was developed. 1

It was ancient man who invented the potter’s wheel. The Egyptians developed pottery of glowing color. The Chinese, out of their glazed, hard-fired pottery, gave the world the white translucent porcelain that becam e the wonder of the medieval world.

Pottery-making was a family art, a secret, handed down from father to son, for many generations, ac­cording to National Patent council. The practice continued even after the founding of the American col­onies, but in the American Consti­tution there was written a provision for protection of invention without secrecy.

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The 4-H Clubs in New York State in 1948 contributed to such services as the collection and mending of clothing for overseas, raising money to send garden tools to Germany, sending o f CARE packages, and adoption o f foreign families.

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Island A ir Ferries, Inc. announced today that they have purchased two Douglas DC-3 airplanes, completely

[ fitted with the latest safety devices, J which w ill be delivered to the air­line at its MacArthur Airport base on or about April 2, 1949.

Pending a decision by the Civil Aeronautics Board on Island Air Ferries’ application to carry airmail and air parcel post, over the Long Island-New England route, for which it holds a franchise, these air­planes will be employed at Idlewild and LaGuardia Airports starting April 15, 1949 for sightseeing flights in connection with a Permit received from th e P o r t o f New York Authority.

A Hearing is being held in Boston on March 28, which w ill render a decision on the mail application; representing Island A ir Ferries at this Hearing w ill be Mr. W ood T. Henry, Washington Counsel, Dr. Richard H. Rush, a prominen* Wash­ington economist, and head of the Aviation Division of the National Securities Research Bureau, Mr. Robert Hoffmann and Mr. Fred­erick H. Smith, treasurer and presi­dent •of the company, respectively.

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X-ray pictures can now be sent by telephone, reports Telephony maga­zine in a recent issue. This new de­velopment in telephotography with lifesaving implications for accident, victims, was announced by Dr. J. Gershon-Cohen of Philadelphia and A. G. Cooley, New York engineer, at a recent Chicago meeting of the Afnerican Medical Association.

“A highway accident which took the life of a prominent industrialist during the war prompted develop­ment of the telephoned X-ray tech nique,” says the report. “ The acci­dent victim was taken to a small hospital and X-ray pictures were taken. But there was no one who could interpret the pictures. So the patient had to be transported several miles to large city, and died on the way.

“ If there had been a radiologist at the small hospital the patient would have teen saved. The radiologis could have told the injury would damage vital organs if not repaired before the patient was moved.

“The X-ray telephone service is now routine between the Chester County, Penn, Hospital and Dr. Gershon-Cohen’s office, 50 miles away in Philadelphia. The hospital techni­cian takes the picture, puts it on her transmitting machine and telephones Dr. Gershon-Cohen’s office. He turns on his receiver, looks at the picture, and tells the patient’s physician over the same telephone circuit, what he sees. The whole thing takes about three minutes.”

More long distance .telephone mes sages speed from coast to coast of the country in a dSy now than did in a week in 1940, according to a recent Bell System repcr.. The transconti­nental calls now amount to about 8,600 daily, compared with 4,000 per week eight years ago.

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THE nuclear reactor (pile) nearing completion at Brookhaven National Laboratory will be air cooled by big blowers such as the one shown

here. These centrifugal compressors, built by the Sturtevant Division of Westinghouse, rotate at a speed of 3600 revolutions per minute and are capable of moving over a thousand cubic feet of air every second.

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fans which will ventilate the air- cooled nuclear reactor (atomic pile) under construction at Brookhaven National Labroatory, Upton, Long Island, was announced today by the Sturtevant Division of Westinghouse at Boston, Massachusetts..

The specially designed centrifugal compressors w ill rotate at a speed of 3600 revolutions per minute and, are capable of moving over a thou­sand tu b ic feet of air every second.

At the heart of each of the 12-foot high blowers is an all-steel wheel, approximately 3 ^ feet in diameter, with nine forged blades welded to a solid hub. Each unit has a double inlet and is driven by a 1500 horse­power motor.

After the cooling air has been cir­culated through the pile, it will be blown through an air-duct and up a 300 foot air-stack, carrying with it minute quantities o f radioactive

argon which will be dissipated harmlessly into the upper air. Study of wind velocity and direction and atmospheric pressure during opera­tion, w ill permit control of the pile so that air emanating from the stack will not settle on or near the ground.

Instruments on Brookhaven’s two weather towers and elsewliere on and near the Laboratory site will give precise information on wind currents, and operation of the re­actor w ill be controlled at a low level or stopped entirely if weather conditions over a period of several days indicate that continued release of radiation would not be completely harmless.

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