Science: Technology Notes

Recent news of invention and engineering:

— "Lamps of tomorrow will mood-condition our homes, paint pleasing and ever-changing pictures or designs on our walls. kill bacteria, and so guard us against disease, provide us with health-giving radiation and sun tan while we sleep. . . . Heating lamps may warm our homes in cold weather." So prophesied Lamp Engineer Samuel Galloway Hibben of Westinghouse Lamp Co.

— Geophysical prospecting for oil (recording the underground travels of artificial, explosion-made earthquakes) is relatively new in petroleum technology; geochemical prospecting is newer still. The geochemists pick...

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