Show WHAT ECLIPSE DISCLOSED During the tha two minutes of ot dark darkness ness Saturday when the total of ot the tho sun was seen In New NewYork York and other eastern cities along alonga a path miles wide from Michi Michigan gan to Connecticut dozens of as astronomers and thousands of la law lawmen men made aliens and photographs One of the astronomers reported tho of the corona to be of unusual shape w a spiked streamer extending to nearly a solar and another er re reported reported ported on the sharpness of the shadow b binds The shadow bands are flickering lights as though the rays from the sun n ere being Inter Inter- Intercepted Intercepted by the spokes of a wheel rolling re-rolling ol Astronomers haie ha explained the shadow bands which just before the coming of darkness The laymen were able to add In Information information formation on what is Js known as s Dalle beads which are points light which are arc seen as the last line of the sun disappears and Is caused by the tho mountains of the moon The tops of the I obstruct the light v while the aile s sallow allow the beads of light to show It was an opportunity to study surface of the moon on the edge which mo moed mO ed between tho I and the sun Even at totality the entire sun Is lanot not eclipsed as the streamers from th corona are arc of great extent and give sunlight Mch reaches the earth Saturday engineers made a study and took measurements of the light from the The most Important ob- ob serration Ob-serration had to do with the atoms 10 the peak of the corona here tho atom loses one or more of Its electrons Th through the tho spectroscope which dl Ides light hoped to discover how howan nn electron Is thrown oft orr from tho atom and how the atom acts minus ar are electron So tar far tho chemists ha hae ha e been unable to split an atom or release tho tremendous energy which binds the electrons of an atom and 11 If they discover the secret they may be able to 10 make liGht and unlock the tho greatest of all store houses of Data on this subject Is awaited with inter interest est esl I |