Show I Freaks and Oddities In Science News J Prof Professor sor asor Auguste and Dr Charles Kipfer who have ha gone up to a a. height reported t to be over feet have been more than previous balloonists many of or whom have MORE been martyrs t to the conquest of FORTUNATE the atmosphere IN BALLOON The record ascent In November ASCENT 1927 by Captain Hawthorne C. C Gray Oray of the U. U S. S army ended fa family fatally fa- fa a- a tally mily for him After several previous narrow escapes Captain Gray reached feet but accidentally cutting his oxygen tube died from suffocation before before be- be fore ore reaching the ground at Sparta Tenn On a previous ascent he lost consciousness only to find himself falling at about a thousand feet per minute Throwing ballast overboard frantically he fortunately fortunate- fortunate ly y landed on some telegraph wires without harm haim On another occasion he had t to use a parachute to save his life lUe The record for than heavier machines Is about the he same figure A height of feet was reached by Lieutenant of the U. U S. S navy A new method for finding high altitudes and a record ecord for two men was the outcome of ot a D. more recent recent reent re- re cent ent and fortunate flight with an airplane piloted by y Captain Captain- St. St Clair Street of the army air corps Photographs of Dayton Ohio were taken from this machine by Captain W. W Stevens at a height of feet S 0 5 Train wrecks often caused by unsuspected epileptic tic lc attacks on engineers may be averted in the I future fu- fu U- U ture ure as the result of a new test for epilepsy Unsuspected epilepsy is 15 account- account NEW NEV METHOD able for certain train wrecks and OF FINDING transportation accidents EPILEPSY The serious type of ot epileptic conIN conIN con- con IN Hi MEN known as Grand Mal Mai may maybe maybe maybe be produced b by pressure upon the principal artery of the neck of epileptic patients In applicants for railroad positions unsuspected epilepsy mo may lay be detected by applying this method If It the applicant is suffering from Irom epilepsy in mild form which even he himself does not know about pressure upon pon this artery will show the presence of the disease by y producing the characteristic and unmistakable convulsIons The same effect can be produced by galvanizing the he brain with an electric current The galvanization causes auses the blood vessels to contract with simultaneous eons ous loss of vision When the electric current Is reversed reversed re- re versed the blood vessels are dilated and vision Im- Im Improves Improves proves pro This shows shO clearly the quantitative relation of f fullness of the blood vessels and nervous function |