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Show Electrical Engineer Fascinates Audience Scientific phenomena and magical ma-gical uses of electricity were demonstrated de-monstrated and explained by Dr. Hylon T. Plumb of Salt Lake City at a Parent-Teacher association asso-ciation gathering at Bingham nigh school Tuesday evening. An engineering consultant for General Gen-eral Electric company, Dr. Plumb is known in principal cities of United States and Canada as a gifted lecturer with the happy faculty of making awe-inspiring facts plain to the layman. Some of the changes in store for future generations as a result re-sult of present day laboratory research were forecast by Dr. Plumb. A hint was given of far-reaching far-reaching developments of scientific scien-tific findings in the realm of defense. ihjv uta ting uic iiuuoc of Magic" exhibits was Dr. Plumb's demonstration of music traveling across the stage on a beam of light. Humidity control was demonstrated demon-strated by Dr. Plumb by turning a light on with a moist breath and off with a dry breath. "Cold light", an imitation of the light of a firefly made with chemicals was shown and described as 25 million times more costly than the electric light we use in homes. Fanciful presentation of fact made Dr. Plumb's exhibition of the effect of ultraviolet light on colors breathtaking. Stroboscope light, which flashes flash-es on and off too quickly for the eye to detect, caused a disk revolving re-volving 900 times a minute to appear as though standing still and other optical illusions made apparent by electrical machines were for the purpose of dramatizing drama-tizing practical uses of electricity that seem products of magicians:, the electric eye, inducto therm, kidnap alarm, recording sounds with a beam of light, detecting fluorescent and phosphorescent properties with black light. Utah Power and Light company, com-pany, General Electric company,' Jordan school district and the Parent-Teacher association cooperated co-operated to bring the "House of Magic" to the high school. |