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Show Instrument from the Sky Supplies Students First-Hand Information The high school physics class, taught by Omar Hansen, this week saw practical appliance' of some of the things they had learned when Gay Whiting Law, student, brought to school a Radiosonde, which had dropped on the roof of the home of her mother, Mrs. Maude Whiting at Mapleton. Had the apparatus dropped on some other home that of one who had not studied physics, he might had thought it to be a bomb, or something from Mars but not Gay. She immediately recognized it as equipment with which the weather bureau stations sta-tions transmits information telling tell-ing of the barometric pressure, temperature and humidity of the air through which it passes. The Radiosconde ascends at the rate of 600 feet per minute until it reaches an altitude of 16 miles. At .this point, an attached at-tached 4-foot balloon breaks and the instrument descends on a 3-foot parachute. When Gay fund the instrument, instru-ment, it was in the shrubbery near the house and the parachute para-chute on the roof. She brought it to school and the students of the physics class reviewed what they already know about such instruments. They have the apparatus ap-paratus all boxed up and are returning it to Illinois as per instructions attached to the instrument. in-strument. Mr. Hansen said today that only three other Radiosondes have been found in this area two in the fields west of Springville and one in Goshen. |