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ECLIPSES?
Flames Shooting Out From Surface of the Sun.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Society, Washington, D. C.)
N TUB ninth of May the sun
| | and moon staged another of
V J their great periodic dramas In
which the Queen of the Night
for a few minutes banished the King
of the Day and ruled the sky.
No one in America or Europe could
see tiiis great show of the heavens,
for the moon’s shadow swept over
only a narrow band extending from
the middle of the Indian ocean to be¬
yond the Philippine Islands; and the
pencil of darkness traced most of its
line over water. But it crossed land
in northern Sumatra, the southern tip
of Siam and the northern Malay
states; just touched southern Cam¬
bodia, and swept across the middle
Philippines. But so important was this
brief blotting out of the sun to the
scientists of the world that parties of
litem journeyed to these far off lands
in the path of the shadow, taking
with them elaborate instruments and
cameras. Yet the total eclipse that
brought about all this travel and ex¬
pense lasted only five minutes in
Sumatra, and less than four in the
Philippines.
it was not the darkness itself that
Interested tho observers, but rather
die haze of light that appeared around
the circumference of the lightless
moon, for that is the chromosphere of
the sun and It holds many secrets.
Also, they wanted to see the stars
that shine immediately past the edge
of die blotted-out sun, for their posi¬
tion may shed new light on die Ein¬
stein theory.
Meanwhile the man in die street
will be wanting to know what is the
use of such investigations anyway;
and ff the astronomer takes time to
answer, it will be to say, “I don't
know.”
Nor could anyone foretell what new
truths would be discovered, or fore¬
see what new applications to human
welfare they may have.
But now scientific knowledge always
lias a way of turning men's minds to
its application to human necessities.
Today, in peace times, we see die
great dirigible, die Bos Angeles, dy¬
ing through our skies without fear of
the gas explosion which lias wrecked
so many superb lighter-than-air craft.
And all largely because Bockyer, in
ISOS, training his spectroscope on the
great Haines that shoot out from die
rim of die sun, detected a new line in
their spectrum. He noticed its close
resemblance to the lines of hydrogen
and concluded it must'be the spectro¬
scopic signature of a light gas un¬
known to terrestrial chemists.
How Helium Was Found.
Twenty-eight years passed, with
everybody thinking, that this gas was
a stranger to die earth. Then Sir
William Ramsay obtained minute
quantities of a new gas from uraninite.
Imprisoned in a test tube and eiec
trically excited, it began to glow.
Studied with die spectroscope, it
showed die same telltale autograph
dint Bockyer had observed.
More years passed. The World war
was on, and America had entered it.
The housewives of die plains of Kan¬
sas had been complaining of die qual¬
ity of their natural gas. it didn't
make enough heat or sufficient light.
A middle-western university professor,
IB P. Cady, was sent down to find out
die trouble. In his spectroscope ap¬
peared once more the unmistakable
signature that had .come to Bockyer.
Ramsay, and to Sir Ernest Rutherford
in his manifold investigations of radio
activity. It told him why that gas
wouldn't produce sufficient heat and
light—it contained helium, as inert
as stone and playing die same role
!n the natural gas that slate plays in
eoal.
Then the American Chemical society
met. The university professor was
put on the program to tell of Ids dis¬
covery. He apologized for intruding
a theme upon the attention of that
great body which could not, by the
longest stretch of his imagination,
have any bearing on die momentous
issue before which all other matters
should stand silent. But after lie
spoke, a venerable British savant de¬
clared that lie need offer no apology:
that if the war went on another two
years the professor's contribution
would do more to promote victory
than all the other contributions to
the proceedings.
The* came helium as' the straw that
would break the Hohenzoliern back,
if all oth?r weights should fall. It
made possible the construction of
giant dirigibles which could conduct
raids over die enemy lines without
fear of inflammable bullets.
And it was the training of a spec¬
troscope on a huge tlame on the rim
of tlie sun during an eclipse tiiat had
first revealed this element.
Thrills in Astronomy.
Romance? Astronomy offers more
thrills to the alert human mind than
ail die fiction in die Bibrary of Con
gross could provide’
Recently millions of people listened
in on tiie election speeches and re¬
turns, and marveled once more at the
wonders of radio. But they little
dreamed that a patient Danish as¬
tronomer had done die pioneer work
which' released Bell’s telephone from
die bondage of wires and made die
ether of space its servant.
When Itoemer found that eclipses
of the moons of .lupiter occurred 10
minutes earlier when Jupiter and the
earth were on the same side of the
sun than when on opposite sides, lie
deduced that light was not instanta¬
neous. but traveled at about 180,000
miles a second.
Clerk Maxwell concluded that light,
to travel at such a velocity, must he
electro-magnetic, and that there must
be other wave lengths than those
which register on the human eye. I
Hertz detected these hypothetical !
waves, Marconi harnessed them to sig¬
naling, and l’upin made them the bur i
den bearers of sound. Vacuum tubes
can now take the infinitesimal bit of
energy these waves possess after
spanning a continent—a bit of energy
no greater than a tiny fraction of
that expended by a fly in crawling up
a window pane—and, “stepping them
up” and amplifying them, make them
capable of producing a room-filling
sound.
Mere is an Inkling of a solution of
the problem gf power sources after
coal and oil supplies are gone. Study¬
ing Sirius, the gay Dog Star, and his
less brilliant companion, nstrouorners
have found indications that this satel¬
lite of the Dog Star has nearly ns
much mass as the sun, although it is
only a little larger than the earth.
If that lie true, then there are
states of matter of which man never
dreamed before. On that basis this
dark star would be 50,000 times as
heavy ns the same bulk of water. In
other words, a pint of the material
composing that star would weigii 25
tons.
The world is looking for a good con¬
ductor of electricity that will enable
industry to» transmit power long dis¬
tances without undue loss of energy.
It is possible that this new under¬
standing of the constitution of mat¬
ter might lead to the open door of a
new and better conductor to take the
place of the diminishing supply of
copper in the transmission of elec¬
trical power. Should sueli a conduc¬
tor be found, then the melting snows
of the Rockies and the Andes, of the
Aliis and the Himalayas, might turn
the wheels of the world’s industries,
light the lamps of its homes, and pro¬
duce all the fires of its kitchen ranges
and sitting-room fireplaces.
The astronomer and the physicist
have pooled their forces in cross-ex¬
amining the atom. In the test tubes
of the laboratory and the cosmic
crucibles of the skies, they are at¬
tacking it with X-rays, spectroscopes,
and other instruments of atomic tor¬
ture, to make it surrender the secret
it has withheld from humanity for
so long.
When Madame Curie discovered ra¬
dium and Routgen produced the
X-ray. they gave the world an inkling
of the unheard-of powers that dwell
within these infinitesimal solar sys¬
tems; and with inconceivably small
amounts of this power the physicist
is bombarding the atoms to break
them up, while the astronomer is
Studying the forces tiiat affect them
in the sun and the fixed stars.
The radium atom tells tiie physicist
and tiie astronomer that atoms ex¬
plode just as molecules do, only with
infinitely more power.
The fastest explosion that man has
ever been able to produce lias been
at tiie rate of about 7.700 yards a sec¬
ond. Tiie radium atom, in its disin¬
tegration. hurls its fragments at tiie
rate of 12.000 miles a second, nearly
j 3.000 times ns fast as the fastest
j known molecular explosion.
Will tiie physicist, with his super
| powered electric furnace, and the as
j tronomer. with ids flaming stars,
working hand in hand, and often, as
a unit, be able to wrest the atom's
secrets from it?
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HE WROTE IN 1892
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