Show novel electrical device finds buried meteors the invention of a mathematics professor has brought to ohio state university what is said to be the finest collection of meteorites in any college in the country the meteorites were unearthed in texas and arizona last summer by prof lincoln lapaz with the aid of an electrical device which he had built the instrument is believed to be the first ever used to record the presence of magnetic and meteoric material beneath the surface of the ground to the geologist the few meteorites which finally reach the earth after their flaming flight through space are valuable one weighing a pound would be considered a prize but with the aid of professor lapaze instrument the university has increased its collection many times and it now contains meteorites weighing 40 pounds the professor first became interested in meteorites while tracing their paths mathematically from this he turned to their actual collection and the invention of a device which at last puts the search for meteorites on a scientific basis |