Eighty-five stones above Manhattan, in the topmost crags of the Empire State Building, RCA-Victor has a television station from which it expects to resume experimental programs late in June. Visitors without credentials are barred. But Death paid a visit there one afternoon last week.
Work was done for the day and the current in the powerful apparatus was turned off. A potential between 2,000 and 5,000 volts lurked in a condenser. From another room technicians saw a blinding flash. They rushed in to find Engineer Harry E. Lawrence, 33, University of Pittsburgh graduate, sprawled on the floor. The jolt had torn the...
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