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Show Seeping Up ric I. ''J'i )0l JSJZ-ice.-WNU Service ?L Be Possible to y iv Arountl INIoon S??UZeroto Eighty," PHowIt8 Done v F Snow-given money r h for the development OKfisms- scientists j ,5 design a space rocket 3 ,vo a trip around the And that such a flight 4 Mbe achieved without in-m in-m any imaginary physi- features or laws of na- Ktica s best known veteran elec-:t elec-:t scientists of Princeton N. J, c " Z tv for these statements and .gjSei Ms new book. "Zero ish: b Eighty." hat(. life of Imaginary Scientist. ,r0 to Eighty is the life story of 'i .. aginary scientist, one Akkad :ocir Ljoman who was bora In 1920 at cj achieved the Jules Vernlan goal on ftip around the moon and back b the earth. Written as an auto-M auto-M or- vaphy, it is completely fiction; lis f h fiction without one single fact eeii- ifaHcy in it Dr. Northrup merely Sew :-(ises the fiction form of narra-fa narra-fa because he is wise enough to iffl! tow that the layman likes to read erpv ,teit people rather than about their i::is. All the scientific material skillful-ps' skillful-ps' ijifltermeshed with the fiction tale tai been worked out in consider-IV consider-IV tb!e detail and "is believed to be J eSrely consonant with current gh proved facts and well tested tech-la tech-la ical knowledge," as the author Jlflt! It Behind the book is a considerable ineiditure of money and much la-son; la-son; te la building small laboratory my ; models of rockets initially propelled you c: U magnetic "guns." ve a: Ideas Are Patentable, ir.ae:: Because 2ero to Eighty does rep-Eent rep-Eent much experimental work and Ech of the technical material Is resented for the first time, Dr. si ortoup takes the precaution in his jus s: ,;WOn to puiut out that there are ichf -aiy Ideas in his fiction brainchild : id that he reserves the right to tolect these ideas by patents at me future time. ,ot' ' Dr. Northrup pardon, Akkad teudoman has little faith in the t o.s oi launching space rockets by 1 rrific blasts from liquid-air rocket "J"'1 igines. Scientist Pseudoman uses 1 T i! magnetic gun method which al- " ; w a more gradual acceleration "ett i the terrific speed needed to get syond the sphere of the earth's Jpavitational influence. Then, once Wwii space, his space ship uses rocket Ml" to steer it and slow its ve-j ve-j Ifiiy once it has journeyed around Moon and back to the earth. Yk Dr' Northrup has built small elec-y elec-y fli ''magnetic guns in his laboratory 0 Jives detailed methods of their taction and how they work. -9 consist of a long solenoidal k ! a ol heavy conducting wire III wugh which is passed heavy cur-els cur-els of alternating electricity. At 2,000 cycles a second these U Mncal waves travel down the LV '?? 101 to "Hun" with a velocity J ttiee kilometers a second. At i speed they would circle the 4 the equator in 222 minutes. ;the instant the nose of the hol-: hol-: '"eW rocket "bullet" enters the , m it leaves .the muzzle it is f. yaCCeIerated- ever v ' up with these speed elec-"" elec-"" which drag it along. y.,1',; N Limit to Size. Balis JSlythere'snolimitto ruch one might build into vaCCelerating Snn nor is 'alimu to its cross-sectional 5 :ee, on a trial test of a U-H Bi, mere 40-6 kilometers T aa xS! Akkad Pseudoman ' half miie deep as the H , k 0 hls san- Gi ;frrhetekM lr the ss? -tric Lge r and more Powerful ;lsMt i 18 emPlQyed whose oul P?atepetl ta Mexico- n-tha t0oWard the Pacifio: a the 1 I? kilmeters long. C needtobe riy tf' sat ' large radius. Cot really dividecl Nk';t.vgoin.en'anti '"creasing fre. Itrr- ;4 t the mt0, 5,000 Cyclesa V:!y 18,000 eTh ,e f the Sun wet higher up. I'rontosil "Steals Show"' at Medical Meet; Kills Germs New Chemical Remedy Combats Many Diseases Hy JANE STAFFORD Atlantic City, N. J. Pron-tosil, Pron-tosil, new chemical remedy that has already saved thousands thou-sands of lives and promises to conquer four of mankind's major germ enemies, held the spotlight at the meeting of the American Medical association as-sociation here. This red dye and its chemical relative rel-ative sulfanilamide, were the most important and most talked-of subjects sub-jects on the program and around the convention hall. They even stole a place on the program from an older remedy. Latest disease to go down before the attack of sulfanilamide is pyelitis, pye-litis, serious and troublesome urinary uri-nary tract infection for which there has hitherto been no very successful success-ful treatment. Sulfanilamide Treatments. Cases of pyelitis which were completely com-pletely cleared up by treatment with sulfanilamide were reported by Dr. Henry F. Helmholz of the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn. This was the first report of the use of the new chemical remedy for this disease. dis-ease. Doctor Helmholz was to have reported re-ported results of treatments with mandelic acid, but his results with sulfanilamide were so much better , and so spectacular that he made a last-minute change in his paper In order to report the sulfanilamide treatment. Meningitis, including the particular particu-lar deadly variety due to streptococcus streptococ-cus Infection of the brain membranes, mem-branes, as well as pneumonia, gonorrhea, gon-orrhea, childbed fever, and other diseases caused by streptococcus Infection, In-fection, all yield to treatment with sulfanilamide or prontosil. Reports of hundreds of similar cases are now ready for publication in the Journal of the American Medical Med-ical Association, the editor, Dr. Morris Mor-ris Fishbein, declared. Chemical Checks "Cocci." The chemical is not an antiseptic and does not kill the disease germs. Its action, apparently, is to keep the germs from growing and multiplying multiply-ing in the patient's body. The body's own fighting forces are consequently consequent-ly able to overcome the Infection, and the patient recovers. Sulfanilamide is apparently particularly par-ticularly effective in checking the growth of the round germs of the great "coccus" family. These include in-clude streptococci, pneumococcl, meningococci, and gonococci. These bacteria are the causes of Type III pneumonia, for which there has been no such satisfactory serum treatment as there is in Types II and I; streptococcal meningitis, which up to now has always been fatal; childbed fever, which has killtd thousands of mothers every year In spite of all efforts to check it; and the distressing and painful disease, erysipelas. All have now been successfully treated by sulfanilamide sul-fanilamide or prontosil. This new chemical remedy was developed by a German chemist, A. Domagk. It was first brought to the attention of physicians generally by the English doctors, Leonard Cole-brooke Cole-brooke and Meave Kenny. Its first use in the United States was by Drs. Perrin Long and Eleanor Bliss of Johns Hopkins university. Doctors Doc-tors Bliss and Long told the meeting meet-ing of precautions necessary in the use of the remedy. Road Magnets Reap Curious Metal Crop Washington. Magnetic road sweepers or "nail pickers" pick-ers" used on gravel roads pick up a curious assortment of potential puncture makers, and save the motorist a considerable con-siderable sum of tire expense. But in addition to saving money and time, this type of maintenance is considered an important safety measure. These electro-magnets will draw a nail through about three inches of loose d.rt, and pick up as much as 12 pounds of metal per mile. Here is what one pound of metal is reported to have contained after the magnet had passed over a North Dakota highway: 102 large nails, 187 small nails, 30 tacks, 23 pieces of tin, 8 brads, 11 bottle caps, 5 washers, 38 pieces of wire, 2 screws, 5 garters, 1 needle, 1 hairpin, hair-pin, 1 bolt and 1 razor blade. "Schmidt, North Pole" Is Address for Scientist Washington. "Schmidt, North Pole." That was all the address there was on one letter in the small mountain of fan mail addressed to Academician O. J. Schmidt, leader of the Soviet Polar expedition, Tass has informed Science Service. Uncountable letters have been mailed by American children to Santa Claus at the same address, but this is the first time one has been mailed to the North Pole for a mortal man. |