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Show a UV ATR UCL » oC Not much substantial progress can be made in chemical and electrical industries unless the action of electrons is studied. For that reason the chemists and physicists in the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company are as much concerned with the very constitution ment of new inventions. a machine-gun; for by its new ways so as to reveal As the result of such greatly improved, CUCU TOMS are so infinitesimal that to be seen under hundred microscope one the most powerful The atom used to be the million must be grouped. When the X-Rays smallest indivisible unit of matter. and radium were discovered physicists found that they were dealing with smaller things than atoms—with particles they call ‘‘electrons.”’ Atoms are built up of electrons, just as the solar Magnify the system is built up of sun and planets. the size of a to Lodge, Oliver Sir says hydrogen atom, will be no n, cathedral, and an electron, in compariso bigger than a bird-shot. UU PUL OCU MEC CMEC CMEC MEUM low Large is an Atom? of matter as they are with the developThey use the X-Ray tube as if it were means electrons are shot at targets in more about the structure of matter. experiments, and the vacuum the X-Ray tube has been tube, now so indispensable in radio communication, has been developed into a kind of trigger device for guiding electrons by radio waves. - Years may thus be spent in what seems to be merely a purely Yet nothing is so practical as a ‘theoretical’? investigation. The whole structure of modern mechanical engigood theory. neering is reared on Newton’s laws of gravitation and motion— theories stated in the form of immutable propositions. ~ In the past the theories that resulted from purely scientific research usually came from the university laboratories, whereupon The Research Laboratories of the the industries applied them. General Electric Company conceive it as part of their task to explore the unknown in the same spirit, even though there may be Sooner or later the no immediate commercial goal in view. Wireless comworld profits by such research in pure science. munication, for example, was accomplished largely as the result of Herz’s brilliant series of purely scientific experiments demon- strating General the existence of wireless waves Office a: SUE ULL SRE) r sty 0001201001000 m TURF TT 95-361A |