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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER Robot Solves Problems in Higher Mathematics Whiskers. Stymie Gas Mask Entered as second clan matter Feb. 8, 1929, at the Post Office, Ra dolph, Utah, nnder the Act of March 3, 1879. Layton Marshall, E $tor and Proprietor Wa. E. Marshall, Business Manarer 1.' I Per Year in Advance SUBSCRIPTION Philadelphia. A calculator that can lick its weight in trigonometry equations has joined the University of .Pennsylvanias family of mechanical mathematicians. THAT MODERN BOY The newcomer, weighing only 30 unipounds, made its debut at the arts fine and versitys engineering exhibition. Professor Irven Travis, who designed the calculator as well as the universitys two other robot think- differential calculator ers a is putting and a root extractor d jobs. the baby to work on The machine consists of a set of interchangeable gears, angle protojectors, steel tapes and scales,simlink mechanism with a gether ilar to a pantograph. The pantograph arrangement produces a motion proportional to the sine of a man-size- Mother Mary, is your caller a youhg man of economical habits? Mary Decidedly, mother. He insists that we use but one chair to keep from wearing the furniture and always turns out the light to save electricity. given angle. This motion is added to a similar motion of a sine of another angle and the gears permit the necessary adjustment of the ratio .of the angles. The unknown quantity, which is one of the angles, is recorded on VERSATILE George Allen of Bromley, England, offered an unsuspected problem a protractor. The new device is capable of solvvisits to fit residents with gas masks. The wardens found that a bearded a trigonometric equation in ing individual like Mr. Allen requires extra-careffitting because the hair of the time usually reforms an inlet between the mask and the face.- They solved the problem Travis said. Professor quired, d by fitting a mask one size smaller than that required for a person and contributed to hs future safety. over a given area. Later the many shots obtained are overlapping turned over to laboratory experts, made into a complete mosaic map, and, with the aid of scientific devices, studied for signs indicating the presence of natural wealth. , Air maps check up on shifting s coast lines, and may even settle indisputes as to boundAir Pictures Are Used to nized as an aid to military recon- ternational several years For aries. example, it to naissance, provided, according ago the United States army air some estimates, nearly four-fiftStudy Traffic Jams. corps, at the request of a special of all enemy information obtained. arbitration tribunal, took hundreds Washington, D. C. To fight the Today, making maps and pic- of toll of traffic photographs of territory claimed accidents, mounting tures from the air is a highly speboth Guatemala and Honduras. authorities have found a new aid in cialized business, by for trained With this information at aerial photography. Necessary ap- men and technicalcalling hand, an equipment. Such paratus according to reports from photographs are made now any- agreement was reached. Another Milwaukee where the device was where from a few hundred feet off spectacular role of the aerial camrecently tried out includes one the ground all the way up to the era involved the location of Maya Ancient Indian ruins in Mexico. small captive balloon, controlled by rarefied atmosphere of the stratos- Roman ruins in Britain have been and a from guys ropes passenger in the same manner. automobile equipped with trailer; phere. To fill increasing demands for spotted and one camera suspended from photothe balloon and operated from be- more and better birds-ey- e STRAWBERRY TIME low by means of batteries and a graphs, special cameras that cover been have territory button. push evolved with multiple lens, automatResult: Photographs of busy ic shutters, and other modern imstreet crossings giving a birds-ey- e provements. Many of these maview of traffic conditions at various chines are attached to the plane; some point through windows like small SMILES cannons; others are built into MARY QUEEN the floor of the ship. With the recent advent of the photographic airplane designed for no other purpose, Old Mother Earth may be more photographed than a Hollywood movie star! From national governments to civic authorities, from Big Business to individual mining prospectors, many and varied are the interests served by aerial photographs. e are photographs particularly useful in road planning, in work, in studying soil erosion, or in locating power-plasites. Locates Radium Mine. Canada has made good use of the aerial photographer. With its vast open spaces such surveys are enormously helpful in forestry checks, for locating canoe trails, in Pretty Catherine Agaisse, straw-- s mine detection, etc. One of the berry enjoys one of worlds biggest radium mines was the ripeambassadress, berries she has just helped found there as a result of air pic- to in the strawberry patch tures. Mining prospectors can now nearpick La. Marketed by Hammond, Queen Mary, mother of King buy at nominal cost various maps a growers organization, the Louisiregions likely to contain ana Farmers Protective union, the George VI, had a gracious smile for illustrating valuable ore. who the photographer fruit is handled through an auction snapped her Hunting coal and oil, both private in Hammond and thence distributed photograph as she was leaving the Exhibition of Handicrafts at the and government agencies employ to numerous other states of the Kensington town hall in London for birdmen who fly back and forth Union. the benefit of the Metropolitan Borough Tuberculosis committee. The Official Wrecking dowager queen appeared in perfect health. to air precaution wardens of Beckenham, Kent, during house-to-hou- QO50OOBQO HOTELS HOTEL PLANDOHE, SALT LAKE 4th So. 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Studying traffic jams from such air pictures is a modern way of dealing with the peculiarly modern problem of cities on wheels. But aerial photography, particularly from captive balloons, is an old story, says the National Geographic society. As far back as 1861, nearly half a century before the history-makin- g flights of the Wright brothers, the face of Boston, Mass., was recorded from a captive balloon some 1,200 feet up. Wilbur Wright himself, in 1911, made a few shots of the landscape with his simple ground camera. Around that time a fire at Salem, Mass., was snapped from a plane. Published as a newspaper scoop, it was said to be the first airplane illustration so used. Serve Many Masters. But aerial photography was slow advancing, largely because vibration and air currents made ordinary An army tank charging one of a row of condemned cottages near camera use almost impossible. It was the World war that offered the Bovington camp, Dorset, England, provided an exciting show for the proving ground for the art. Then local inhabitants. Hundreds of visitors, and all the soldiers stationed at air mapping came of age. Recog the camp had a chance to see the tanks in operation. . . v N HOLLYWOOD Glamour BOULDER DAM Wonderful YELLOWSTONE Playland GLACIER PARK Coolness "The National Parks Rout Western Air Express Loo Angeles, Las Vegas, Salt Lake Idaho Falla, Pocatello Butte, Helena, Great Falla Being an Optimist A man kin be so much of an optimist, said Uncle Eben, dat he lf simply goes through life sellin gold bricks. his-se- |