Show Keeping Pg Up Wi fi Science Service Radio Robot Flies Eight Miles files Aloft for Weather Data Tiny Storage Battery Has Be Been n Devised Pasadena Calif Scientists here as a step toward improved weather forecasting have made madea a robot balloon which constantly constantly constantly con con- calls down to earth carth radio reports of f temperature pressure and humidity from al altitudes altitudes altitudes al- al as lofty as feet nearly eight miles The flying radio station weighs only two pounds and the balloon Is Is five feet in diameter The radio emits a 17 meter wave which Isone is isone isone one of the shortest wave-lengths wave used for tor a practical purpose The apparatus has already made one flight to feet To reduce the weight of California California Califor Califor- nia Institute of Technology's soaring weather station the smallest yet devised for such an ultra short wave Louvan E. E Wood graduate assistant who designed the meteoro meteoro- graph has developed a tiny two- two volt storage battery that will rest reston reston reston on a fingernail Weighing 4 grams this battery will be used In a series of about 50 replacing a dry cell ceil battery system Broadcasts Humidity Records In addition to temperature and ond pressure the station is designed to broadcast humidity records The present method of gathering these data Is by airplane Perfection atthe of at the radio system will provide a faster fast fast- er means o of obtaining the data daia for forecasting purposes Except pt for the elimination of one or two technical difficulties in the recording of data the radio method of gathering meteorological Information information information mation aloft is on the eve of practical practical practical use By gathering weather data up to altitudes of feet meteorologists will be able oble to refine the new system of mass air-mass forecasting Tiny Tube One-Tube Radio The radio credit for tor which goes to Capt O. O C. C Maler Maier of the United States signal corps has one tiny tube that transmits transmits' a constant signal signal signal sig sig- nal interrupted by a timing tuning device that translates the data datil for broad broad- casting This timing mechanism Is Isa isa isa a watch that has been refined and develops one two mil horsepower 25 times more than an ordinary watch |