Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-04 | Page 8 | Genuine Mirages Produced in Miniature

1 I GENUINE MIRAGES PRODUCED IN MINIATURE Baltimore Dec 4 fIt It Is III no longer cr lice necessary essary to travel the tho of Arabia or Africa or over ovel the th burning wastes of Arizona to 10 ace JCU a It genuine mir mirage mirage age ulC Dr DI Robert VV l Wood professor or of or ex experimental experimental physics ph In lit Johns John Hopkins university who Is III one of oC tho 1110 hest best known experimental physicists In the theo Held field of ot optics yesterday showed Hopkins eta stu students tu dents a 11 miniature mirage that lint revealed perfectly time tho realness and vividness of ot the tho common to travelers on barren sandy tracts Prof Wood reproduced tho the desert In his laboratory with a II sheet of or Iron plato about 15 feet In length covered with sand laud under which a series of or gas Ill burn burners burners ers eIll were lighted to heat the sand as all It ItIs itIs Is 15 in tho the desert A mirror reflected the tho sun upon a II white sheet of or paper at atone ono one end cud of or the tho artificial desert the paper serving as a 1 clear cler skyline When hen tho the sand got fairly hot a u person looking along alan Us Its surface at nt some somo little piles plies of at solid cand at the end toward tho the white paper could almost believe that Just a a n little way a In front of the tho plies piles of or sand t d thero was wal a clear elMr pool of ot crystal water on o otho the tho Iron plate