Show A a f alls aham ew ama dlubak 0 ani I 1 k EL W k 11 14 F 1 I X va Z 5 v TI C V y P PE elz za ca a ACADEMY of and reaf IN washington by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN UN national academy of i sciences and the nation f ol al research council way may mark the house wann trig of their new homo home nt at washington by the announcement of scientific discoveries of great importance con coming penetrating radiation and ita Its source in connection with other forms forma of radio activity eti vity the source of penetrating radiation tins has puzzled physicists for years and there are r nany many theories dr robert Atil andrews drews vice chairman or of tho the Nai national lonal research council lias has been studying tilts this puzzling and important problem tills this fall from the top of a lofty peak in the colorado nearly three miles up tip above sea level dr millikan Is professor of physics nt at the university of chicago and Is the scientist who ferst isolated and measured the electron ile ho was assisted in his studies of penetrating radiation radl atlon by prof it 31 etli of the norman bridge laboratory nt at pasadena Pasil dena cal tho the two scientists working in california sent up balloons many miles into the air professor otla otis ascended in an airplane to the height of feet then they decided to make further investigations from tile the top of pikes peak near colorado springs pikes peak Is possibly the most famous I 1 in tho the world anyway millions of people from all ali over the world have ascended it on toot foot on horseback by automobile and by and have been sheltered in tho summit house feet up tip in abe air work in Surri summit mit house dr tind professor otis transported something like four tons ton of scientific apparatus to the summit house and went to work in earnest after the latter had determined the illness fitness of the he location by ten days of preliminary experiments sciences theories concerning penetrating radiation have not yet be beon been on confirmed said bald dr we ive are convinced of one thing and that Is that penetrating radiation comes from above us and not from tile the earth as do other terms of radio activity but whether it cornea comes from froin the outskirts of the earths atmosphere or from nn an different source we have not yet learned tho the new national home at the caal tat tal for the national academy of acl ances end and the national research council will be ready for occupancy somo some time this fall it la Is not far from the lincoln memorial and faces the wall malt it covers the space of a city block approximately square feet ar it its harmoniously luto juto the esthetic building schema approved by the fine arts commission which ta is endeavoring to carry out the stately plan of the city of washington as a con calved by lenfant under tinder the personal inspiration of george washington himself the illustrations herewith are by courtesy of the architect bertram grosvenor goodhue of new nevy york and aro reproduced from an article by will P kennedy in america today chicago tilts tills new national home writes mr Xen kennedy nedy Is to cost supplied from a fund of offered by tho the carnegie Carn eglo corporation in 1019 1010 for the erect erection lon of a building and to provide an endowment for its maintenance and operation and an income for tho the work of the research council to promote science the organizations that are to have a permanent national home here were viere formed to promote the progress of science and research for the advancement of knowledge and tho the national welfare in tills this center the latest scientific and technical advances of the whole country will be shown in a changing exhibit and investigators will meet to report new results and to con alder aider the interests of research here will be visualized tho the fact that the return to humankind as well its as the investors on money invested in research has fins been greater than from anything else reviewing the history of the nation nl ill academy of sciences dr charles D walcott secretary of tile tho smithson lan ian institution points out that in 1803 henry wilson united states from massachusetts asked a number of men eminent in science to come together to form an organization by which the scientific strength of the country might bo be brought to ro the aid of the government tills this meeting was directly the result of an act of congress passed march 8 3 1803 incorporating po rating the national academy of sciences of the united states of america it was senator wilsons Wll Wil sons idea that tills this academy should be national in the broadest sense the academy has held its annual linde meetings tings in washington at the smith conlan institution and its Qu autumn meetings in other cities tho the records and library of the academy have been stored in several hundred boxes at the awaiting until the academy has a building of its ita own onn where tills this material can bo bd made more readily available the world war broadened the scientific thought of the world what started as a battle of armed forces became competition between countries in creative scientific research looking to tile the destruction or of mass masses es LAB instead tea d of individuals this led to the n need eed in the united states dr walcott shows of a body that could bring t together the most able men in the fields of science for the solution of war problems this save birth to the national which ren rendered derad such effective service at tho request of the president dent 0 oi the united st states a te 2 during the period of the war appreciation of tilts this service was shown in an ex executive acu ecu order issued by president wa walso q directing the national academy of sciences to continue the national research council under this order the council was reorganized on a permanent peace basis ns as an agent of the academy and the need of the academy for a homo home was accentuated on passing through the entrance hall bill the visitor will find himself in a lobby rotunda here he will see in actual operation apparatus demonstrating certain fundamental scientific be tent lilI facts that hitherto ho he has had to take on hearsay A t telescope telea ele cope scope mounted on the dome of the central rotunda will form a largo large linage image of the sun on tho the white surface of a circular table in tile the middle of the room here visitors will ivill be able to see tho the sun spots changing in number and form from day to day and moving across tho the disc as the sun turns turna on its axis A GO 60 foot pendulum suspended from the center of the dome will bo be set swinging through a long are arc repeating the celebrated experiment of foucault nult the swinging pendulum will mark an invariable direction in space and BB all the earth beneath revolves rotation will be plainly shown by the steady change in direction of the pendulums swing over a divided are arc phenomena demonstrated two great phenomena of nature the sun and tile the rotation of the earth arc thus to be exhibited dr walcott ex plains other phenomena to bo be demonstrated in striking form in the central rotunda include magnetic storms earthquakes gravitational pull of sm small n masses the pressure of light the visible growth of plants swimming in a drop of water a and n d living bacteria the central hall can be quickly transformed into a largo large lecture room for the larger public meetings and lectures lec turea of the academy and council the smaller lecture hall seating Is available for 0 titer other 0 occasions c cas ca lons in the seven exhibition rooms surrounding the ilie central rotunda da the in latest it results of scientific arak and industrial research will be illustrated one room will be set aside fur for use of government gov emment bureaus bureau another for industrial research laboratories others for the laboratories observatories and research institutes of universities and other institutions invy we e cau call it the building of the national academy of sciences and the national research council bays dr wolcott walcott but in reality it should be the tha national homo of CLICe in america and will bo be looked upon by the world at large as the place where th tha 8 creative mind will bo be table able to do much mch to bring about a better existence for or the future people of the world for it Is to their enlightenment and advancement that it will be dedicated |