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Harvard College Observatory
is Opening a new window on the
universe.
There at its Agassiz Statics,
On a remote New England hill-
side, observatory officials and
their guests have ;just dedicated
the largest radio telescope of
'its kind, in the world.
It is designed for listening to
the faint crackling of radio sig-
nals sent back by the gases of
Outer space, By studying these
signals, astronomers are able to
trace features of the universe
that are hidden from ordinary
telescopes which work with vis-
ible light. -
. Construction costs and en.
dowment for this new radio
telescope project have run close
to $500,000. They have been
financed by a grant of $135,000
from the National Science
Foundation, which was supple-
mented by private donors.
In essence, the new instru-
ment is just a huge, precise
radio receiver. With a higher
capacity for pinpointing fine de-
tails, it will supplement and ex-
tend the work of the 24 -foot in-
tallation that Harvard has been
operating at the Agassiz Station
for the past three years. The 24 -
footer also was built with the
aid of an NSF grant.
Radio astronomy is a new
;Astronomical science, which has
grown active in the years since
World War 11.
As explained by Dr. Bart Bok,
codirector of Harvard's radio as-
tronomy program, it is baseron
the fact that cosmic gases and
stars send out radio noises that
can be picked up by special
equipment and analyzed to tell
something about the nature of
their sources. Sometimes -these
sources can be matched with
visible stars or nebulae. • But
often they are invisible, and
can be traced only by the radio
pickup.
That is why radio, telescopes
have added a large new dimen-
sion to astronomy. They have
literally opened another window
on the universe. What is more,
this window is never closed. It
is open night or day, in good
visual observing weather or in
bad.
The new radio telescope will
help Harvard astronomers get a
clearer look through this win-
dow. With the greater resolving
power of its 60 -foot antenna,
.it will be able to sharpen up
details that blur out with the
24 -footer.
Dr. Bok said the smallest 're-
gion that the 24 -foot instrument
can define is the apparent size
of three moons (about one and
ak half degrees for the techni-
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cally inclined). The 60 -foot an-
tenna will cut this area to the
size of one moon (about half a
degree).
Both the 24 -foot and the 60 -
foot instruments are designed
for specialized work in the radio
astronomy field. They work
mainly with certain "broad-
casts" from cosmic hydrogen
gas which come in on a wave
length of 21 centimeters. These
"broadcasts" first were detected
five years' ago by Dr. Harold
Ewen, codirector of the radio
astronomy program along with
Dr. Bok and Dr. Edward S.
Purcell, Harvard physicst. i
In this 21 -centimeter field, •
whose scope includes tracing the
vast structure of the Milky Way,
the new Harvard instrument for
•a time will be the largest at
work in the world. There are
larger radio telescopes operat-
ing in other fields, and several
larger 21-centinieter receivers
are planned or in construction.
But, even when these latter are
operating, the Harvard 60 -footer
still will rank among the 21 -
centimeter heavyweights.
The antenna is a huge pre-
cision-mdde aluminum bowl
weighing 8,000 pounds .and
which is centered at the top on
a conical pier set in a concrete
foundation 12 feet deep.
The telescope is classed by
the experts as "steerable." This
means it is controlled by motors
that can tilt and turn it to face
any part of the sky and that can
drive it to keep pace with the
stars.
Because this large instrument
cannot be covered, the builders
tiff
onij moderation
Wes Lr c arm
the 'f.ouse
Jii PanfRichter
of .beagrain
Nen who ti/fl h of tomorrow practice ',oder/Nog today
have supplied special bracing to
enable it to withstand high
winds. By locking the lower
edge of the antenna against the
pier, the • structure should be
able to resist winds of even
hurricane force.
In lesser winds, the telescope
can be operated with precision
up to a wind speed of 25 miles
an hour. It still can be operated,
but with less precision, in winds
up ,to 45 miles an hour.
Flying Terrors
By The Millions
A. new fear has come to Afri-
ca. It's caused by the beat of
millions of tiny wings. They be-
long to the quelea finch, a grain -
eating bird no bigger than a
sparrow.
The bird s, which exist in
flocks of 5,000,000 or more, are
playing havoc with grain crops.
They are a greater pest than
the locust.
So fantastic are the quelea
hordes •that people • refused • to
believe early accounts that there
were such birds at all. A hun-
ter who came back from the
bush interior with a first-hand
account was called a liar.
He had chased a wounded
elephant all day and with the
evening wind rising he was rap-
idly closing in on his quarry.
Some distance ahead he heard
the crash of breaking branches.
Suddenly he heard a sound he
had never experienced before —
a shrill whistling and whirring
audible above the wind.
• He came upon a flock of birds,
but what a flock! Myriads of
tiny creatures, uncountable
numbers of fluttering wings.
The breaking of branches had
not been his elephant. The com-
bined weight of millions of tiny
birds had torn off branches al-
most twice as thick as a man's
thigh. He could hardly believe
what he saw.
Since then the voracious little
pests have been recognized as a
great African agricultural prob-
lem. In parts oft. Kenya, Tan-
ganyika, Somaliland, Sud a n,
Rhodesia and South Africa, Af-
ricans have abandoned grain -
growing because of the winged
menace.
Flocks a mile long and wide,
blacking out the sun, are quite
common. When they settle, acres
of ground — every leaf, twig
and blade of grass — are ob-
scured by tiny, flittering bod-
ies.
There is no natural control of
the birds. Man has tried flame -
and poison gas in an effort to
throwers. bush fires, dynamite,
reduce the birds to reasonable
numbers. It's like trying to move
a mountain of earth with a tea-
spoon.
Africans eat the birds in their
hundreds. But there's no stop-
ping the quelea. They can fin-
ish off a field of grain in ten
minutes, while a thousand 'men,
posted at ten -pard intervals and
frantically beating tins and
shouting themselves horse, try
in vain to keep them off.
Meanwhile, more fortunate
Africans scan the sky, hoping
that they will not hear the clis- •
tent rumbling of countless "inaa
which heralds the approach of
the feathered terror.
"TWILIGHT SLEEP"
Use of ether had proved so
effective in simplifying the
work of fin -clipping trout that
wookers, as an experiment. ap-
plied the same practice while
stripping eggs from rainbow
trout. Almost a million eggs
were taken from etherized trout
in half . the time ,usually re-
quired. In addition, the percent-
age of delivered' eggs that
"eyed up" nearly doubled.
The spawn -takers, Who for-
merly had to tussle with slip-
pery trout weighing up to 15
pounds, were enthusiastic boost-
ers for "twilight sleep" for the
finny expectant mothers,
Shunned Chance
To Make Fortune
Old Charlie Webb cursed
when another plogh-share snap-
ped in his tough rocky soil.
Weary of farming amid the
tiresome outcroppings of green-
ish gold stone he tried to sell
his land at Shipton, Quebec, as
rough pasture.
His cow -herding neighbour,
Jim Gifford, laughed derisively
when the field was offered to
him for $50 back in 1881. Jim
didn't know he was turning
down the greatest opportunity
of his life.
Within seven years the land
turned out to be the world's
greatest source of asbestos and
it soon brought Charlie Webb
enough ready cash to make all
his dreams come true.
Asbestos was only in its in-
fancy, To -day it insulates the
super heated exhausts of jet en-
gines, is an essential to car
clutches and brakes and tough-
ens the plastic tiles on your
floor. And Charlie Webb's old
land is currently yielding $100,-
000,000 worth to an asbestos
eager world every year.
It backs the millionaire for-
tune of much -married Tommy
Manville and helps pay the ali-
mony to his ex-wives. It's so
precious that, north in British
Columbia, engineers are shav-
ing the asbestos top on a 6,000 -
foot mountain and shipping the
processed mineral through Alas-
ka for export to the world.
New sources are continually
being found. A hard -up old gold
prospector got a job pick -hand-
ling at the Manville mine.
"When do we get to the asbes-
tos?" he asked, and was dumb-
founded when told he was al-
ready digging it.
Searching for gold on an old
claim of his own, he had ig-
nored the wealth of asbestos
lying all around. So he led
geologists to the site — and
found himself a rich man.
In Quebec only recently a
man noticed the gleam of as-
bestos on a rock jutting from
a lake only a few yards from
the main road. Everyone as-
sumed that the lake belonged to
the powerful asbestos corpora-
• tion which was mining the land
all around. But Albie Ward
wasn't so sure. He hunted up
old mining archives in Quebec
city and found that mineral
right under Black Lake were
still reserved to the Crown.
Under cover of darkness Al-
bie Ward staked his claim, an-
choring corner posts in the ice
on the lake. To -day Ward is al-
ready a millionaire. Goevern-
ment experts report that $600,-
000,000 of asbestoes lies beneath
the lake.
S vfety is Simple
Ninety-six per cent of the
traffic accidents in St. Louis
could be prevented by the sim-
.plest of methods. That is the
gist of a report by the police de-
partment traffic analyst and
safety director, Capt. Roland J.
Schumacher. He says a bare 1
per cent can be classed "un-
avoidable" and not more than
3 per cent are due to mechanical
failures.
The remaining 96 out of 100
are caused by such violations of
law — and common sense — as
speeding and going through stop
signs and yellow lights. These
are faults any person of driving
age and average intelligence
can easily correct.
If the 'mechanical elements of
cars caused 96 per cent of the
accidents, if they failed to per-
forna even • their most simple
functions adequately, the situ-
ation would be called intoler-
able. Is it any more tolerable
because the element so funda-
mentally at fault is the one be-
hind the wheel?—St, Louis Post-
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