Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-12-29 | Page 4 | Science News

SCIENCE S C lEN C ENE NEWS r S lJ HA A great country lost to history for twenty centuries centuries cen cen- tunes has been discovered by Professor Raymond Raymond Raymond Ray Ray- mond P. P Dougherty of Yale university Ancient history will have to be revised it appears to make room for this neglected land Its kings and its peo pee plc Professor Dougherty has found evidence that in the ancient world there was an important country country country coun coun- try known as the Sealand or the Land of the Sea which spread over o a large part of the Arabian pen pen- This Sealand of Arabia has come to light not by digging up ruins and records that records that may come later later but but by careful study of disconnected references references ref ret to such a a. place in writings of Babylonia and Ass Assyria Tia Results of these studies have ha just been reported by bj Professor Dougherty in a scientific scientific title volume Professor Dougherty places the Seaf Sealand Sealand Sea- Sea f land on the map in Arabia Because an accumulation tion of evidence e In cuneiform writings points to that location An increasing number of cuneiform writIngs writIngs writ- writ Ings which have been une unearthed and turned over o overto overto to scholars to decipher Is yielding the Information information information tion proving existence of such a country Professor ProCessor Dougherty outlines the history of the Sealand in three main epochs The first lasting from possibly 2500 B. B C. C to 1000 B. B C. C was outstanding outstanding out out- standing for intrusion upon affairs of Babylonia The second from to B. B C. C was during the height of Ass Assyria's ia's power and the alanders far from quaking at the Ass Assyrians ians played an aggressive aggressive sive role rote The third epoch running late Into the sixth century B. B C. C was the time of the tho Chaldean empire This last Sealand dynasty Professor ProCessor Dougherty sa says s 's was a contributing cause to the downfall of Ass Assyria ia in B. B C. C thus winning the thelong thelong thelong long rivalry S S S SJ HA A device that gives a direct e measurement meas incas U J of the acceleration of a train when It speeds up or of Its retardation when the brakes are applied has recently been invented The Instrument Instrument In In- strument also t tells Us the grade when the train Is on ona ona a hilL It consists consist basically of or a glass tube bent in the shape hape of a a. rectangle and partly filled with mer mer- cury This Is mounted on ona a flat base so that It may be set on a parallel to the vehicles vehicle's line of ot direction The glass column toward the rear Is marked off oft In miles per hour per second above and below a central zero position The front column is marked of off in per cent grade above and below a zero When the vehicle speeds up or slows down the surge of the mercury up or down in the tube gives a direct reading of or acceleration or retardation