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NEW MARKERS TRIED ON GEORGIA ROADS
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Oversize markers, lo aid motorists in determining their routes far in advance of reaching a turn, are
being tested by the Division of Traffic and Safety of the Highway Department. One group is shown above
being inspected by C. F*. Carter, left, superintendent of metal working at the State Prison. and G. A. Fish
er, superintendent of the prison. When experiments with the new markers are completed,, they will be
manufactured at the State Prison.
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Invention of Gunpowder
Still Remains a Mystery 1
There is a large place reserved
in world history for the man who
invented gunpowder—but no histori
an can be certain of this inventor’s
identity.
Perhaps no chemical invention or
discovery has affected the course !
of history to a greater degree than
has gunpowder. Dr. Ralph E. Oes
per, associate professor of analyti
cal chemistry at the University of
Cincinnati, has been making a study
of its origin.
Dr. Oesper said that Berthold
Schwarz, a German monk, and
Friar Roger Bacon have been asso
ciated with the invention, although
the Bacon claim has been upheld
solely in England.
His studies have led Dr. Oesper
to the conclusion that Schwarz—if
he really existed at all—invented
firearms about 1250 at Freiburg,
Germany.
"No contemporary documents or
accounts dealing with Schwarz are
known and those who contend that
he never existed may be correct,
but at least tradition, which usually
has an historical basis, justified the
monument to his memory in Frei
burg,” Dr. Oesper explains.
The earliest version, taken from a
Freiburg manuscript of 1432, has
Schwarz seeking a tincture for gild
ing metals, mixing saltpeter, sul
phur, lead, and oil in a tight copper
pot, and prompted by the resultant
explosion to experiment further.
“Why are there no contemporary
records?” Dr. Oesper asked. "If
Berthold Schwarz is a purely leg
endary inventor, the answer is ob
vious. However, history may have
taken no interest in his doings be
cause guns were said to be execra
ble inventions and their employment
was decried as destructive to manly
valor and unworthy of an honora
ble warrior.
"Schwarz was reputed to have
compounded powder with Satan’s
blessing, and the clergy preached
that as a co-worker of the evil one,
he was a renegade to his profession
and his name should be forgotten.
There was no reference to the Chi
nese claim to the invention of gun
powder in Dr. Oesper’s report.
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Angelo Redone
Leonardo da Vinci’s great fresco
of the "Last Supper” in the Sistine
chapel of the Vatican has been re
touched more than once; several
times the original nudes have had
garments painted about them.
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