Science Comics 001 (1946)

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ON AUSusr 5, 19^5, A SINGLE gOMB FROM A SiNSlE B-29
DEVASWfED THE JAPANESE CITY OF HIROSHIMA -ANO WITh""
ITS DErONATlON THE WORLD ENTERED A NSW ERA: ThS ATOMiC
ASE] HERS 15 The /^O'^BNTOU'S 5TORV OF THE AfOM VVH05S
ENERSy 5CIENCE RELEASED AND KARNAS5ED TO MAi<E-tHAT
SOmB P05SlSLii

PROFESSOR eeCQUEREL PLACED THE URANIUM
IN A DBAvVen COntaimMG SO■^AE PHOTOSRAPKiC

Plates and a metal k£y,a coincidsnce of

VAST IMPDE^-ANCEi

SOME TIME LATER .

THia IS 5TRANGe [
THE PW0T03tlAPHiC

Plates seem to have

BEEN FOGGED BYtlSHTi
HOW CAN THAT BE?

F THIS 15 TRUE, THEN
URAMIUM iS PROBABLV'
RADlOACriVEl ITAAUST
GIVE OFF SOME
MYSTERIOUS RaVSI

FURTHeR
EXPERIMENTS
PROVED THAT
PROPESSOa
BECOJEREL'
VA5 COPtREal
iAT£R>i;00,

IT WAS
DlSCOVEflEO
THAT
URANIUTA
GIVES OFP
EN5RSV
CIN FHE FOftM
OF RAYS)
BECAUSE
Its ATaVNS

ARE
ACTUALLY
DiSlNTEGSATlNSi

THEN, IN A905.PROPES50R
ALBSPT E1N5TEIN EVOLVED KiS

^mOuS EQuaton!

MV THEOCIV (5 THAT MATTER AND ' •
EfsjeRSY ARE lNTEflCHANG£A5i.E 1
IN OTHER N\OP.D5, ONE CAN BE
TURNED INTO THE OTHER 1

f IF PPOFES50n EiNSTEIN 15
. aiSHT,THENTHc ANNIHl'^TiON
OFASMAiL (5ARTICLE OF
MATTER ^VOULD PRODUCE
A TReMGNDOOS AMOUNT
OP ENERGY 1

Ves! AFTER ALL, THS
VELOCITY OF LIGHT 15

186.000 MILES PER
5EC0ND, AND WHEN
YOU SQUARE TfHAT VOU
SET AN EVEN GREATER
PGUaEl

THIS EQuAT.ON PflOVESTK^r

HE EN^ERSv PflOviDED BY
A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF
AAATTER 15 EQUAL TO TH£A'U55
iNSOLVED,AAULTlPLlED BY THE
SQUARE OF THE VELOCITY
OF LIGHT 1

WHAT SCMEBODV WILL
HAVE TO DO 15 BUILD A
AAACHINE THAT'S
CAPABLE OF SMASHING
ATOVlSi AND THAT'S A
A^AN- SIZE JOB

IN ri^E AN.'D I'^iQ'S , G^EAt ADVANCES IN

SuiLOiNS Such machines were made sv SuCh

/V^EN AS DR. Q.e. lAVw-RSNCe - BUiLDECi OF THE
CYCLOTROM !

WHAT 16 THE
BASIC IDEA

OF THl5

CVClOTRON?

lT-5 JU6T fHl5 - 70 Pur ^
PAftTiClES OF MArreft IN THE
'GUN" PART OF TM£ CYCi.OrRON
AND \X''hiRl them abound
PAST S^CUSH. THAT V/HEN V^E
SHOOT THEIR ATOMS OUT AT
OTHER AT0M5,WEiLBE ABLE 70
5MA5H THOSE OTHra AfOMSl

THE CIRCLE OF MARBLES
REPRESENTS THE ELECTRONS
WHICH CIRCLE AROUND THE
NUCLEUS OFTHEATCW\^ THE
CLUSTER A^ARBLE6 IN THE
CENTER REPRE5EMT TH&
NUCLEUS/ VHICH 1 5 MADE

UP OP Particles called

PROraSi^ AND NEUTRONS

THIS SIMPLE GAME DEMONSTRATES ACTUALLY, IN ATOM EXPLODING URANIUM ATCW15 ARE

THS BASIC PRINCIPLE OFAAACHWES SA'\A5HiN[S MACHINES, LIKE A 5TRINS OP FiRSCQACKSRS

UXE THE CVClOTRON WHICH IT TAKES AA^ILLtON OF TED TOSETHER WITH LOnS FUSES.

ARg D£*GnSO to Smash ATa\^5! THE NEUTRON 'BULLErS" AFTER THE FIRST ONE EXPLODES, IT

PLANrS VESE B'JilT IM rSNNcSSEE^
WASHINGTON,, AND NEW MEXICO CARRY
O'JT THIS 5ECRer ^0^'<.

WITH JWE OLfTBREA'^ OF THE WAG, LED BY
5UCH MEN AS DP. VANNEVAQ Bu6H CASOVE)
ALLIED SCIENTISTS fPSD UP THE SCIENCE Oi=
ATOM - Smashing l

PINALLY ONE DAY IN MlD-1945, THE RQST
BOMB VA5 AtrACHED fO A STEEL TOWER
THE GREAr D=SEP,T WASTES OP NEW ME^^CO-

IT WON'T BE lOnG

nOvI if our

aOMS WORKS, IT'5
THE BE31NN1NJG
OP THE END
OP JAPAN j

AND WHEN THAT
BOMB EXPUDDES.I'M
GOING TO BE AT lEaST
TEN MILES AVvAV
PROM HERE - AND SO
HAD EVERYBODY

slse better be I

BY NOW, EVERYONE KNOWS OF THE
TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION THAT OCCURRED
THAT DAY -A PRELUDE TO THE DROPPlNS
OP THE PiRSr ATDA^IC BOMB ON JARAN !

UNTOLD WONDER5 LIE AHEAD IN THE WORl^
OF ATOMIC ENERGY 1 WHEN THE ATOMlC/*^
ENERGY IN A SiNGuE GLASS OF WATER ;
CAN BE HARNESSED A5 WAS THE ATOMIC*
ENERGY IN URANiUM, IT WILL BE POSSiBLS TQ
PROPEL A SHIP AROUND THE WORlO SY ■v
SAAASHiNG THE ATOMS IN TKAf ONE SUASft' I
OP WATER 1

AuGuST5. "^^-i - ^

TH,£ RiJNWAV AT AN
AIR BA6£ IN THc
PKClFiC

5HE 60E5i

\ SETTER

CROSS

1 CR055

VOUB.

/ TMEiR

. PNSEC56.'y

tMEN, HISh OVeR
MIR05H1/W4 THE PIRST
ATOMIC BOMB DESCENDS
av DARAGHUTH!

BOY5, LET'S' SET OUT OP
MERE PA5T ! EVEN AJiruDE
■WON'T SAVE U5 FROM THE

Blast unless ^vE'Re
MILES AWAY BEFORE
THE SPECIAL TIMER ON
THAT BOMB CUTS L005E ,

I SEVERAL MfNUTES LA TEF^

THERE 5HE GOES!
lCOK at THAT TOVER
SMOKE IT5ENTUD! IT'S
AT LEAST 4-0,000 FEB
WISH

THUS,TWS
ATOMIC BOV\S'
SUPREA'Se .

ACHIEVEMENT"
OF= MODERN
SCIENCE -
5CON BROUSHf
ABOUT THE
SURRENDER
OP JAPAN
AND THE END
OF THE S'-OeAJ.

CONFLICT!
IN THE HANDS

OF THE
PEACE-lOVINS

fnations of
THE Earth,

ATCmiC
ENECIGV WILL
HELP BUILD A
NEV VORLO
FAR A^ORE
VONDSRFUl
than MANJ

EVEK
DR£A/V\ED A
FEW BRIEF
YEARS-ASOJ

Twi0£ SERPJV ^WAPgD vMCaOBE# CAN
SOA\B HOW BB BPOUGHT UNDSQ CONTROl
IP I CAN PIND THE PlSHf REASON VHV
THEV MUT1PLV50 RAPIDLY! DERMAP5 MEAT
OR OXYGEN WILL HAVE TO BE CHANiGED
TO DO THE JOB!

IP I CAN AUTgEA MICROBE ,DULl 1^5 RANQ^

to 5PSAK- IfS POSSigtE TO MAKE
HARMLe^S 5155IES OUT THESE
DEADLY KILLERS 1 I'LL MAVE A LOOIC AT
y THl5 UNDER THE M1CP05C0PE

DARN \J\ TH!5 HAS HAPPENED BEFOPH'
A PIECE OP MOLD HA6 BLOWN IN
THE WiNDOV AND SETTLED ON
AAY CULTURE OP BACTERIA [ ir3
RUINED NOW FOR EXPERiMENTAt

BUT AS ALEXANDER PLEMINS LOOKED
CLOSER AT THE DISH 1

VAIT A MINUTE 1 THAT MOLD I& , ^
KILLING TH05E GERM5! RlDLEVi .
CRADDOOCt COME (N HERE AT ^
once! T think VE HAVE THE
INNING OP SOMETHINSj

THE Rings om the plate shov what

ALEXANDER FLEMING SAW-- THE
MYSTERIOUS MOLD )5 D1650LVINt5 THB
MAN-KILUNG 6ERMS!

HEQE SNAg THE DPAMAnC gEGlNNIN^
0~ THE D!6COVEP,Y Oe PtNCHUNI

BOON FLSMIN© , QiDLEY AND CRADDOC<
*N'EE!E HARD AT -WORK '^■ITHTHB MOLD!

f^VE BEEN CAREFULLV GROVING THE
MOLD IN TMAr JAR! LET'f' DQAV OFF
SOME OF rWE BROTH THE MOLD i5 GROVilSJG
ON BECAUSE IF THE MOLD 15 SECRETINS
50ME AAiCROBE KILLING JUICE \VclL FIND If
IN THE BROTHi

AFTER WE FILTER OPp: SCME QP THIS
SnOTH, WE'LL TQV DRODDiNS (f ONTO
A SLA65 5LIDE VlTH PLENTY OF
MCROBE5 ON IT AND 5EE WHAT
HAPPENS 1 1

VE5] 'IT'5
jQEarROVING
THOSE BACTERA

UKE A^ASiCl

THAT 5ETTLE5 ill I'M SENDING A SAMRlg
OF THIS MOLD TO DR- ChAPlES THOM
AT THE U-5. DEPAQXS\ENT OF AGSlCUTUl^!
IN WASHINGTON 1 IF ANVONS CAN
IDENTIFY THIS MOLD FOP f^E, HE CAN!

5MCQTLV AFrEeVABD.DB•THO^^ DECEIVED
A SAMPLE OP tWE AAOLD IN THE U-^-A-

TH05E eNSLlSH'PELLOVS ARE ON THE
RISWT TRACKB ALL RIGHT! THIS AAOLD 15
PHNiCiaift^'iBUT NOT P.RUBRUM'

ACTUALLY FHlg !£j E'- NO^ATUAA-
ALTHOUaHPLEAAiNS 15
PERPEOLY WirHIN Mia PISHT5
J NAMING H\6 MOlO

MEANTIME^VARlOU5 SCIENTISTS HERE

AND IN ENGLAND CARRIED ON THBP.
gXPEniA.\ENT5 WITH THE NEW DRUG

AS THE YEARS WENT BV^'MORE AND
MORE VsA5 LEARNED ABOUr PENICILLIN
BY STUDYING ITS EFFECTS ANIAAALS
INOCULATED WITH VAR10U5 GSRAA5i!

THgSE MICE ARE

AU FULL OF
PNEU^^ONlA GERAAS
BUT AN INOCULATION

OF OENCILUN
5HOUID KILL THOSE
G^RMS, JUST AS IT
DID BEFORE!

&Y I9^1^5A\ALL AAAOUNTS OF PENICILLIN
\VHRE AVAILABLE FOR WOUNDED ALLIED
SOLDIERS - BUT ONLY ENOUGH FOQ

EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES!

THEN, IN ENGLAND/ DP. HOVARD FLORSM
AND NORMAN HEATLY PClEPa^^E TO
LEAVE FOR AAAERlCA l

THE ONLY HOPE FOR
LARGE SCALE
PRODUCTION OF
PENICILLIN LIES IN THE
POWER OF AMERICA^
GQBAJ INDUSTRIES

riSht! and the '
SOONER WE 3£T
THERE TO SEE
WHAT WE CAN DO
O PRa^\OTE IT, THE
MORE OUR SOLDIERS
LIVES WILL BE spared!

rwi TVO BRITISH SCIENriSTS CALLED ON
THOM IN SVASHINGrONj

DO.. THOMAVE THINK THIS PENICILLIN
PROJECT 5HOULD BE PU5HEp A6 FA6T A5
POSSIBLE.' HOV/ CAN V/E GO ABOUT DOiNS 'T

ISUSGESr VOU 50 TO THE
AGRICULTURAL DEPAQJMENT'5
RESEARCH LABORATOnV
IN PEOR1A.ILLINO151 THEY
^HAVE EVeaVTHlNS vou'u
NEED!

OUT THERE THSV HAVE THE BB€>T
MICROBES IN THE \»^DRiD! AND
51NCE AAANV AMERICAN DPUjJ©
HOU5E5 ARE ALREADVsJ ,
INTERESTED IN DENICILLIKTT -
PERHAPS VOU CAN INTEREST
THEM IN THE PROBLEM CF
MA35 PRODUCING THE , ^
5rUf=F! AT ANY RATE, SO ^
TO PEORIA AMD
^OQ< ON IT I

LATER IN DEORIA THE MEN TALKED TO
DR. ROBERT D- GOGHILL

BEPORE uOniG/ ORDSR5 HAD GONE OUT TO
OUP AIR FORCES ALL OVER THE \^onLD...

ve5! penicillin mold
'must be fed on a
better diet to produce
'more penicillin and a

SETTER 5TRAtN OF
PLEMING5 MOLD
^HOUD BE FOUND.'

HEV.APE VOU NUT5? WHAT
ARE MDU DOING/ PUTTING
CHINESE DiRT IN A BOTTLE?

J SOME GUVS
BAC^ IN TUB
^BTAJ^e \i/ANT
TO EXA;MINE

THE auss

IN IT

ttA4ifi SA^^eLES OP 50IL PQOM Ovea

TMS SAQTH .SVEae BEINS eXAMiNEO

HAAl iNTEdESriNS MOLD

THIS ONiEi THINIi
lU PUT IT UNDER THE
.MlCn05C0PE INSTEAD

BUT V^MILE SAAAPIE5 OP DOT PHOV,
oven WE EAQTH SHOWED NOTHING
EXCITING, ONE OF TW£ TWO BS5T 5TRAINa
OP PeNlClLUN >VA& DEVELOPED PKOA
rf-f£ CANTAS-OUOEl

THSSS NEV 5TnAN5 OF PENK^IU-IN APE
THE ANSWERS TO OUQ DQAVERe)! ONE
OP THEM WILL GOOW SUBMERGED
INSTEAD OP ON^V ON THE TOP OP THE
SnOTHl THAT iVAEANS IT CANJ BE MADE
!N LARGE TAN<6 OR VAT6i

DEED INTEREST!

500N GIANT 'PUANTS W'ERE TUPNlNG OUT
TMg AAiHACLE DQue! OvBa naO.OQCOOO
HAB ©EiN aPENT ro BUILD PLANTS UKE

THAT'S aiSHTl BUT ITS AAANUSAOVQE IN

LARGE Quantities is 50 impobtamt TO

5AVIN© TME LIVES OF SOlDIEP^ AND
CIVILIANS THAT OUR COMOanV i5 REAOV

MODERN PLANTS PRODUCING PENICILLIN
AQE MORE 5ANITARV THAN ANVQCB^'nNS
ROOAa! AmCROBE-OESTRCMNG ULTRA-
VIOLET LAMPS HELP IN THIS ESSENTIAL
\X/ORt<,A6 PICTURED BELOW IN A PENCHUN
BOiTLiNS room!.

By. Joseph

SOME of the things— indeed, many of the
things! — scientists are doing these days
(to say nothing of their accomplishments
in the past) may seem like nothing short of
magic to some folks. But the plain truth of the
matter is, there nothing "magical"-about them,
speaking in the true sense of the word

With very few exceptions, all the things'
that science has done for mankind as far back ,'
as we have records, have been done by men
who deliberately set oat to accomplish some ^„
definite purpose and in so doing have almost '
alw ays arrived at this purpose simply through
following through. with what we m^ht term
"reasoning" or "logic."

But there is nothing "unusual about these
thought processes that we all don't go through
in our minds every single day of the year. To
"illustrate this pointy let's take a very simple
example.

Suppose your mother comes into the kitchen
and notices that the cupboard door is wide
open. Then she sees that the cookie jar is half
empty. Furthermore, there is the mark of a
slightly dirty hand left on the edge of the open
door. WTiaris Ker immediate conclusion.-'

"Somebody has opened that door, taken
some cookies, and left!" she says. But, w-hy
does she say this? Because, to begin with,
there are certain fundamental facts that she"^
.knows already to be indisputable.

First of all, her mind reasons that cupboard
doors do not open by themselves. Secondly,
she knows that — only a few minutes ago — the
cookie jar was filled and now it isn't. Thirdly,
rhere is that tell-tale hand mark left on the
door. The obvious conclusion, then, is that
someone opened the door, took out the
cooiues, left an imprint of a hand on the door
and~-since onbody is now within her sight in
pit kitchen— Ebey must aecessarily have ^ona

Somebody might ask here, "But maybe- the
wind -from the open door blew the cupboard
door open^^ftnildn't that be?-' And you would
say:, "■^'es, it migKt^-be! But the wind didn'^^
take the cookies from.the^j^'!':^^,^-::;.

•The next question might follow: "Bur
couldn't somethmg else besides a human bemg
have taken the cookies?"

And the answer, scientifically but not too
probably might be: "Yes. Something else may
have removed the cookies, because I didn't
.actually'^ see them being removed! However,
a it were, for example, a monkey which re-
moved the cookies, why is the imprint of i
human hand on the door? In all our previous
experiences, we have found that monkeys do
not leave human prints!"

SO YOU come to the conclusion, if you
are a mother in search of some missing
cookies, that someone— a human!— stole the
cookies- Now, this is what scientists call:
"formmg a hypothesis." In other words, we
have a chain of fairly evident facts upon which
to base cur case,

Suppose, further, that there- is a youngster
in -the. house and that he or she has been
known to "lift" a few cookies before. If, in
tracking down the little culprit, he is discov-
ered in the act of munching on some cookies-,
the logical thing to conclude is that you have
arrived at the solution to the problem.

Now let's look at Sir Isaac Newton, who
watched an apple fall and thereby formed his
"theory of gravity." His mind went through,
much the same basic chain of events that the
harassed mother's went through. ..He reasoned
that since the apple fell down — and not up!
— and that since in all man's experiences all
the apples in the world have tlwgys fallen
down and not i^.then theie muse be some*

ntists!

Blair

thing that , causes tliis to happen regularly.
This mysterious force he called gravity and
formed his .since proven theory that "every-
,i^«,jhing"thar goes up must come down"!

Of course, a scientist setting out to prove
that there are sun-spots' on the sun cailsed by
certain whorls of molten metals that are being
drawn back into the sun, cannot start his cliain
of evidence just by assuming that this is so. He
must start with a basic hypothesis that these
whirlpools on the sun are really whirlpools
■ and that they are really formed of molten
metals.

Unless other men before him — or' he him-
self — have proved that this is so, he had better
start with some other hypothesis about the sun
that is even more basic than this.

However, Samuel Pierpont 'Langley, the
great American scientist who died in 1906, did
arriv^ at such a conclusion about the spots on
the sun. And it was not until years later that
another scientist . with a modern m.achine
(George Ellery Hale and his invention of the
spectrohehograph) proved conclusively that
Langley had been absolutely right! But note
that there is i difference between coming to 3
conclusion (as Langley did) and of obtaining
definite proof such as Hale's.
'. ■ '- - ■ '

NEVERTHELESS, the thought processes of
these men were very similar . to. the
thought processes we outlined in the recovery
^ of the missing cookies. The only difference
f'-' being ' in the intrlcateness of solving such
problems as the mysterious sun spots as
, against the mysterious missing cookies.

Speaking of Sir Isaac Newton and his fall-
ing apple, as we were a moment ago, might
afford us another simple example of the paral-
lel between the thought processes of the great
men of science and those thought chains wc
ftU muM uic io evexy-day Uf&

Suppose you saw an apple drop, picked it
up and took a bite from it. A moment later
you toss away the apple in disgust because
you found that it was very sour and unpleas-
ant to the taste.

Now. sometime later, you happened to pick
up another apple at the grocers and you no-
ticed' that It looked very much like the apple
you saw fall from the tree. This one is, let us
say, hard and green to the touch and the sight.
Then you bite into this second apple and dis- v
cover that it is also very sour to the taste.

The third time you see a hard, green apple, -
your mind will say: "\ don't have to bite tills
one! I know it's sour before I taste it!" You
are now basing your conclusion on previous
evidence that has proved infallible before. In
short, you have arrived at a simple, scientific
conclusion. Naturally, if you had the time and
the inclination, you might sample thousands
of hard, green apples from North Dakota to
Normandy, and if you found that— invariably
— alPhard, green apples were sour, it wouldn't
be necessary to question that point again. You
have proved that this is so, sciehtificaliy!

Perhaps, years later, when you had broken
down the hard, green apples in your labora-
tory and found them to be composed of cer-
tain elements in proportions not found m
other apples, you would have advanced a step. ,
farther in your scientiBc knowledge of hard,
green apples — and you would be known as
a world authority on them.

Certainly^ these simple examples are not as
complex as, for example, measuring the heat
of the sun to one miUionth of one degree, but
they follow along the same logical, scientific
steps.

Thus we see that each and everyone of us
uses the methods of science in our every-day
lives. We are jIL uuly, scientists!

CAftBON DIOXIDE G*S tCO^l - THE SAfAE SAS THAT PUTS THE PI22"0Pl
SPARKLE tN SOPT DaiNKS - IS THE SAME SA5 THAT SWCHECIS P1RE5
50 EFFECTIVELV IN AlQPLANES^ SHIPS, FACTORIES, ETC - THE POlLOVlNG
STORY OF COs. IS BASED ON MATERIAL FURNISHED SCIENCE COMICS
BV \^ALTEf5 KIDDE* CO.,INC.- ONE OF THE VOC5LD'5 LARGEST
PRODUCERS 0PTHI5 VALUABLE AID TO FlREFI6HTiN(5.

FIRE 15 THE RESULT OP THREE
ELEMENTS: FUEL, HEAT ANJD
OXYGEN. A CANDLE BURMS

BECAUSE A MATCH SUPPLIES
THE HEAT, THE CANDLE WAX
SUPPUE5 THE FUEL, AND THE

0XY6EN 15 EVERYWHERE .

PRE CAN BE EXTINSUISHED BY
REMOVING ANY ONE OR MORE
OF THESE THREE ELEMENTS, BUT
THE SIMPLEST SVAV l6 TO REMOVE
THE SOURCE OF OXYGEN- YOU
CAN DEMONSTRATE THlS 6V
PLACING A TUMBLER OVER THE
BURMING CANDLE-- WHEN THE
OXYGEN IN THE TU^ER HAS
BEEN C0M5UMED,THE CANDLE
FLAME, GOES OUTi

CARBON .DlOK(DE IN METAL
CYLINDERS WOnitS ON FIRS IN
THE SAME Nis/AV. THE COj ,
WHICH l5 UNDER PRESSURSy
EXRAND5 450 TIMES WHEN
RELEASED AND iT LITERALLY
■'BLANKETS" FIRE BY DlSPLAQNe
THE OXYGEN IN THE AlR!

SNCE fNi DAYS OS SAipNiJ vigSii^a.
SAILORS W&VE DP-E.ADiD THE CR.Y OS-
'PiCigl"MOR£ THAN ANYTMINS ElS^ AT
SEA. HERE l5 MOV THE NESV^.ACCuaATE
COi MErHOD OP Pl«E DETECTION AND
SXTINCTION PROTECTS OUR MODERN
UNEB.6, SUCH AS THE S.S- AMERICA
AND THE QUEEN MAP.V.

Pipe VHlCH LEO i^^^fHS H©UO-

N

THIS l5 kiNOWN AS THE RlCH-AUOlO
CASiNETl (T NOT OnlV shows
Sa\0<^ PftOM C0MPASTMENT6

ALL ovea ou« ship, but csinss an

ALARM SELL AS WELL WHEN

I see! VHEN
SWOKE FRO-W
ANY OF THE
COMRARTMENTS
16 DRAWM UB
THQOUSH THi
CONNECTING
TUBES, IT PASSES
THHOUSH THIS
CABINET 1

BiGwr! AND A
PHOTOELECTWC
CELL IN THE
CABINET SET5
OPF THE ALARA^
AS WELL, WHEN
BREAKS
THE CIRCUIT I
MERE, I'll
5H0W VOU A
DIAGRAM OP

HOW IT woa;<s

V

*yA4£N THE CA&NBT Bie<S UB
THE Li AST TRACE ^mCXI ,

THi Alarm qinsS, a red tAVip
i6 LiQHTiD And the NUMBER
OP THE HOLD iS INDICATED ON
A DiAL ON THE FACE OP TH£
CABINET!".

OvTUT INTO **V1«L- hlOW*S
PfTICriON CHArk^HB

ALSO SAVED THf
LIVES OF HUN-
DREDS OF AUIEB
OF PILOTS THAT
WERE PORCED
DOWN AT SEA,
FOR COT- IS
THE Gta THftt
INFL^TES'LIFE
RAFTS THE
DiSTINSUlSHED
MEMBERS OF
THE "SEA SQ
SQUATTERS
WILL
ATTE6T.

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ALTHOUSH
PORTABLE
CARBON
DIOXIDE
CYUNDEOS
WAVE THElB
PLACE,
Twe HUGE
TRANSPORTS
we 5WAU AIL
SE R1D1N&
IN SOME CAY
HAVE A

Much moqe
. elaborate,

"eUlLT-INtQi!
SXTINGUISHiNSi
5V5rE^^ . I
MERE 15
WOW
; IT WORliS,

'^SUaE BE SLAD
TO GST HOME I
LONS HOP,

SUDDENLY... THE
TENSELY I

PILOT LEANS PQRWABO

!N A SPUT SECOND, THE CO-WLOT THROWS THE SVlTCM
ON TH5 PIEIE CONTROL PANEL TO OELEASE THE 5hi
Pl«e EXTIMGUt&HlNJG 5VSTEMI

THE DIAGRAM SHO^S TVPlCAL LAYOUT OP A FOUH ALTHOUSH ONE MOfOR HA5 BEEN TEMPOSAfllLV
ENJGNE AlSPlAME FiRE EXTlNSUiSHINS 5V5TEM. KNOCKED OUT BECAUSE OF THE CRACKED Oil

COLORED RED LINES INDICATE TUBINS LEADING LINE, THE PLANE'S OTHECl ENGINES EASlLV
FROM THE COa CVL1NDER6 TO THE ENSlNES- BRING THE BlG SHIP 5AFELV HOAAB -PREE

FAQM THE HAZARDS OF FlRE THANKS TO
THE "soda pop" GAS AND THE /MODEaN
AIRPLANE ^WARNING 5V5TEM1

'i^HUS THE GAS TH*kT PUTS THE "POP" IN fiCXJA
P0P)5 DAILY PROTECTING LIVES FRON\ FIRE
OW LAND. IN THE WR AND ON THE SEA* SOON.
AUTO^^A.TlC eXTINGU'SHiNG SYSTEMS OF COv
WILL ALSO BE INSTALLED AS REGULAR
EeUiPWENT IN ORDINARY PASSgNSSR CARS.'

^fffCicy iN 1738, SWISS saeNr/sr PAM£L
TANOUIU WAS STROLLING....

HMM,,,NOW THAT'S ODD/ WHV SHOULD THAT
BO)f BE PULLED WTO THE CUEBEWT WHECE IT FIOWS

BE-

GAN IT SE THAT SWIFTLV PLOWING
WATER HAS LESS PPBSSUCE TO IT THAW
THE SAME AMOUNT OF WATK THAT
MOVES SLOWER? I WONDEI?, , , ,

^THS SAMS PfSINCIPLS HSID TffUe HSfSSf

IF THIS IS SO OF GAS, THEN IT MUST ALSO
BE TRUE OF TH& AIR WE BREATHE^, FOC AIR ISy
SIMPLY MADE.UP OF SEVECAi- C5ASFS/ ^

]mNOULU £)(PBRlMeNTEO AND FOUND H£ mS
PiGHTf THE ABOVE P/AGR AM /LLUST-
RAreS WHAT HAS BECOME KNOWN AS
BERNOULLI'S PRINJCIPLE: Th'^ VBLOOTY
CSPe£D)OF WATF/S. IS LOyV^ff AT POINT ^
BUT THE PPESSUPE /S GREATBfS . AT PO/NT
yi-WHEPE THB "BOTTLENeC<'' CAUSES
7HB VELOC/TV TO INCREASE , THB PffBS-
SUl^e Of= THE WATER DECREASES f f '

fiffiP^r fECT/CW OF W/NG ABOVE SHOWS
HOW D/PBCT/ON OF AIR /S CHAf^GBP

gycupyBp F^^p^/rCiEADiNG^ edge oe

lyWG. BERf^OUlU EXPE/S/ME/^rEO W/TH
THESE W///GS //V 17^9 AND AN BNG-

FRANCIS WENHAM SUC-
CEEDED IN FLYING A aURYBD W/N<3
MOOEL PLANE AS EARLV AS 1Q7I[

BOy/lHBSe NEW HIGH
SPEED MOTOeS ARE
REALLV POWER PUL
BABIFS/

THE\^ HAVE TO BE,RAL/IF
THEY DIDW'T GENERATE ENOUGH
HORS'EPOVVEG. TO MAKB UP FOR.
THEIR WEIGHT, THIS SHIP
WOULDN'T FLY'

/OU SEE, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE HOW LARGE A
aANE IS AS LONG AS THE TOTAL AREA OF ITS WINGS
ALONG WITH OTHER fACTORS,CAN SUPPLY ENOUGH LIFT
TO tCEEP IT IN THE AIG , AND IF THE ENGINES SUPPLY
ENOUGH POWER, RELATIVE TOTHE PLANES S)Ze,TO
IT GOING.' _

I^ECAUfB OP rHI9 BASIC PRINaPLB,YilRPLAN£S
FLVf THERE /S PPACnoaUY AO l/M/T
TO THE SIZEPIANE THAT CAN BB BU/IT. SOf
LONG AS THB MOTORS GENSRATB
ENOUGH HORSEPGWEIR /A' R'El AT/ON TO
THEIR WEIGHT fCmOMB-) THB NEWH{/GHES
HB/?CL/IES''3E/N(S ea/LT. ITWfLL USB EIGHT
^MSIfl/B&~, WBIGH 222 TONS ANC^

All the materials needed foe this
" weather foreckstcr are a small
amobfjt of a chemical called cobalt
blue, a small piece of cloth and a
little patience with needle and thread

F voucan obtain a small Cloth Sack

(iTBOUT the size Of THOSE IN WHICH TOBACCOS
ARE SOMETIMES PACKEDJ VOU WON'T NEED
TO SEW ONE TOGETHER. TAKE SUCH A BAG AND
FILL IT WITH THE COBALT BLUE.

FTER FILLING
■HE BAG WITH THE
CHEMICAL, SEW IT
SECU£ELV SO THAT
NONE OF THE CO-
SALT WILL SPILLS

"Ef you WANT TO DRESS UP YOUR WEATHER
FORECASTER CUT OUT TH» FISURB P\&OVV fKU 0

TIE THE BAG TO JT SO AS TO FORM AN 'APRON'
FOR THE GIKl BY MCXlNTlNGi ON HEAVyCAEDBCW!D
AND BENDlNa BACbSlDS FLAPS, YOu WIU HA^S

HEN THE WEATHEft IS FAI!?,

THE APRO^ WILL REMAIN 8LU^
HEN THE APRON TURNS VIOLET,

A CHANGE THEN IS DUc.
HtN ITBecOlviFS VERY ReO,

EXPECT A STORM TO SR^Wj^l

H£RE r A>M, ZO VE^RS OLD?, AND I
hWENT DECIDED WHERE MY
LIFE W'ORK

m

MOST INTEFlggriNS X^TICUE THIS FEUQW
HElNRiCH H^RIZI TH£Se ELECTRICAL
WAVES gE SENT IN THE FDRfA

^^ES5AGES-1FI COULD Fl3uRE P\\^'M
TO DO IT!

fAARCONI HURRIED BAC^^ TO HIS FATHER'S
ESTATE AND SET TO WORK...

HEHTZ HAS ALREADY DEVELOPED A^^WAVE ^
Erv\lTrER' THAT M^V BE OF USE'. MY PROB-
LEM IS TO INCREASE, DBVELOp AND
CONTROL THESE ELECTRIC WAVES IN
ORDER TO SEND Sl(3NALSi

BY UNKING UP THE WAVE ElAlTTER WTH ^
AKJ INDUCTION Cau AND ^ REGULAR
TELESRAPH KEY - AND SOrAE STORA&E
BATTERIES TO GENEROT THE ELECTRICI
I'/'t tAKi YET WORK THIS OUT.'

TWO YEARS, MARCONI cXPERiMENTED ON
His FATHERS ESTATE -AND THEN ONE DAY IN
lS9fii HE SUCCEEDED IN SENDlNS OUT CRICKET*
Lii^E SOUNDS WHICH HIS RECEIVER PICKED
UP A ©JJARTEPl OP A MILE AWAY' THUS WAS
BORN THS FIRST, CRUDE WIRELESS SiSTBm

This SUV MRcoNi is s£ttin6

EUROPE ON ITS EAR WITH
|. HI& WIRELESS ."machine;

OPFlCgS OP TH g N£h'> ORK HERALD...

READING ABOUT \
HIM. SENT T
SAjS-ES ACR055 THE
EwaiiSH CHANNE^L,
DIDN'T HE ? .

THAT'5 RIGHT! At^DlVEGOf AN IDEA' THE -
AMERICA CUPYACKT RACE IS SCHEDULiD
TO TAKE PLACE OFF THE JERSEY COAST.'
LET'S HIRE HIM TO TRANSMIT BULLETINS
ON IT WlRELESSi THAT'S NEl'ER
SEEN DONE BEFORE I

ARRIVED IN NEW YORK |N TWE
Op I y , , '^^J""*"^

I THANK VOU SEMTlE
MEN POR INVITING ME

TO T^^MSMiT These

&ULUEnN5 OP THE RACE'
it WLL HELP FROve Tk^
VAJ.UE OP WIRELESS'

THAT'5 WHAT WE Fl£URtO'
ANVTHINS VOU NEED IN
THE WAV OP HELPISV0UR5
FOR THE ASKING'

^t!^^^^?'^^^^"^® 'S IN FINE WORKING
TRANSMIT THE SULLEHNS
v^?'^ '^^^ VACHT RACE AND

VOytL PiCk THEM UP HERE! THERE CAN
&E NO FAILURES ' incnc ^-^n

THE DAVOFTHE RAfg...
I UNDERSTAND ^ FELLOW BY THE WAME
2L'>"1P^ FOREST IS ALSO WlRELfeS-
^INS eULLETiNS FOR ANOTHER PaPEP

MARCONI AND DE RDREST- BOTH SENDING OUT
BULLETINS -PORGOT THEV WERE SOTH ON THE
SAME WAVE LENGTH AND VAMWED" EACH OThER^
MESSAGES! SO THE FIRST USE OP WIRELESS IN

^l^iP'^S 'f'^^ FLASHES WAS A PAlLURE-SuT NOT
rOK UONG.' "

&y MOST SHIPS WeRS Mf^KlNfe USf OF

wiRiu^ss TO PREviNT Disaster ^T sbs.

(■^ARCONI.r S=E- TH^
TITAKJIC HA6 STARTED HBR
MWDEN VO>A&£ FROM
EtlGLKND TO AMERICA.'

WEUk, IN THf>Cr CASE, ^BOUt
THE ONlV YOUR WiR^LSSS

WILL Do ON HER IS TO SEND
OUT &IRTHPM GREETINGS
CR S0N\ETH1NG,'

WHW HAPPENED ? ARE
V;E SINKINSl

WHILE IN The ft'iKELESS ROOM 0?="
THE R^PIDLV SINKING LUXURY
LINER/'SPARkS" SENDS OUT THE
URGENT LETTEF^S "CSLD-THE
EARLY CALL LETTERS LATER
CHKNSED TO ''SOS"

SO(Ag ifD MiLiS AWAY THE 5 5. CASPKTHlA. CiCKED UP THg
FRANTIC C'^L FROM THE TITKNIC

TiTANiC StKUCK AN ICeSERS
ftNplS SINKING.' HERE'S THg
LOCATION! SBT IT TO THE
CAPTAIN RIGHT ^WA'V !

SET THErA BELOW! MAKE THEM
WARM AND comfortable;
WE HAVEPLENTy OF ROOM
.FOR ALL.' - ^

WHEN THE RESCUE SHlPARf^lVED
. IN NEWVORK HARBOR...

EVERYONE OF THOSE SURVIVORS
WAS PICKED UP BECAUSE OF
YOUR WIRELESS, MARCONI

FDR THAT ALONE, I
AM THANKFUL I
WORKED IT OUT.'

THUS MARCONI RECEIVED ONE OF
THE GREATEST NATIONS OF
HIS CAREER FROM THE GFW^TE-
FUL SURVIVORS WHOSE LIVES
WERE SP^RED BY THE MAGIC

V/E OWE OUR LIFE TDYOCP

Ra,D10 ENSlNEr^S ANO THE mER

THI

iNSTlTUT
INSTITUT,

OF

SENTUer^EN, r WQULP LIK*i TO Uft^i
YOU to TURN YOUR A1T£nTIi3n£ TO
THE POSSISIUTIES Op-RADlO-SHO^t
W^VEs, AND TO GET OUT OF THE
BUND ALLEY YOU ARE FOLLOWING
IN THE LONG WAVE SPECTRUM.'

\J SHOULD &£ POSSIBLE TO RADIME A BE^M OF
THESE RMS IN /^NV DIRECTION, WHICH RAVS,
IF CO/MINS ^CROSS A METALLIC OKTECT SUCH AS

ANOTHER STEAMER OR SHlR WOULD BE REFLECT-
ED BACK TOA SCREEN ON THE SENDING SHIP-
REVEAUNG THE PRESENCE OF THE OTHER SHIP
EVEN IN FOG OR THICK WEATHER*

iTHOUT USING THE WZO
-/PAPAS'" WHICH WAS THEN
NOT evSN IN OUR V0CA3-
UL.AKV* MARCONI TH£
QENIU5 OC Wl^EuESS
CLffARUY FOKeSAW iT S
COMING frND THE USEFULNSSS
TO NSANKISID SUCH A D^VEL0P=
MENT WOULD BRING.' ALL
THIS TWENTY YEARS 6EF"0RE
THE ACTUAL DEVELOPfAgNT
OF RADAR;

NEXT ISSUE
SCIENCE COMICS WILL
PRESENT THE uP-TO-TmS
/VUNUT& e>TORy OF RaD>hR!

■ii'-iii/r,5u

FLi^Seta: GATHERED F-ftOM THS BEPS OF^P
WATe^, VIRGINIA, AKE GlVeW A 9PeClAL
ULTRA-VlOCeTTReATMEMT TO
9BCURe VITAMIN C FOR

CHICKEN Feepi

f^eOLTOF LIGHTNING WHiCh
STRUCK A FACTORV CHlMME-V iN
ANACONPA,/V\ONTANA, WAS MEAS
UReP ON A QPeOAU MACHSNe
(CALLEP THE FULCHRONOGRaPHI
ANP FOUND TO BE" 15=000,000
VOLTS OR OVER SO TIMBS THE
POWER OF ALL THE- GENERATING
STATIONS IN TH& US.a!

^ USINa GEOPHONES ANP photo FLOW INSTRUMENTS TO
C?eTBCT LEAKAGES IN ITS CiTV WATER gvSTEM, BOSTON l3
NOW SAVING ASOuT H-,000,000 GALLONS OF WATER

CAi^y That formerly wa9 wastep!

CANAPA FOUR MILLION FISM ARE
CAUGHT YEARLY- EVERY SIT OF EACH FISH
IS UQEP IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER - FOR
EXAMPLE THE HEAPS ANPTAILSAREGROUNP
INTO CATTLE FEEP,THE SKll^J OlUlSU^EP
FOR PURIFICATION PURPOgES.ANP THE
SCALES ARE SOlP TO 1/V\iTATiON PEARU
mAKSRS-THfe P&QPLfe'&AT VVHAT'S lSPT!

*'PACKA6BP COAC-THREE INCH
CUBES A/\APE OF SMALL PARTICLES
OF ANTHRACITE- ANP BITUMINOUS,
HELP TOGETHeR BY AW OlU-BAS£ '
StNPER AiNP WRAPPED tN PAF^R-
MAY ©DOM P© AV<AY WITH TMB OuP TlMe

BOYS AND GiRLSf
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MOVIE CONTRACT

"Ever since I can remember," says Roger
Batton of Brownwood, Texas, "my ambition v
was to be a movie star. Now, thaiiks to Judith Allen's book,
HOW TO GET INTO THE MOVIES, I have signed a contract
with Monogram Pictures for a swell part in the Charles Roger's
production, SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD."/ "

HERE IS THE CONTRACT

WARNEK BROS. PlCTmS Inc.
EMPLOYBtS' SJAnmNT

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WHAT JtiB PAPERS SAY

Roger Baffon Is In
Florida For Filming
f Hollywood Picture

RoBfr Bitlon. isd of Mr. ind
Mri. R. E. Ballon, 2207 Avenue
D, ^ho Is now in Hollywood Uhdf

ROGER'S 'THANK YOV TO::
JUDITH ^

to get into the

WANTSPf Boys] and Girls for the Movies!

There are plenty of opportuoities ii»
Hollywood, but you must^know how to
take advantage of them.
Let Judith Allen, star of 52 pictures,
teach you as she taught Roger Batton.
Miss Allen, who has starred with Bing
Crosby, Waller Pidgeon, Nelson Eddy,
Gene Autry, Cecil B. DeMille, Shirley
Temple, has written a book "How to
|, Qet Into the Movies," In it she teaches you many of the things
^6u must know and do to get started in Hollywood. She teaches
you methods that have been used by herself and such stars its Jean
^ Arthur, Veronica Lake, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, Joe E. Brown,
*lBtian Aherne, Elizabeth Frazer and many others.
Send for Judith Allen's book today. It may land you a movie con-
tract just as it did Roger Batton. SEND NO MONEY. Fill in
coupon below and mail today to Judith Allen, 117 West 48th Sl,
N. Y. 19, N. Y. Dept 85, When Postman delivers your book pay
him $1 plus postage and C.O.D. charges. If you send cash with

order, Judith Allen will pay all postage AND IN
ADDITION, AUTOGRAPH YOUR COPY. Guar-
antee: If not pleased, return book within 5 days and
get your $1 back, .

MAIL COUPON NOWmmmmm
Miss Judith Alien

117 W. 48lh St., N. Y..19, N. Y., Dept. 85

Dear Miss Allen: Please send me your book, "How to Cet
Into the Movies." I will pay the posonan Jl plus postage
and C.O.D, charges. It is understood that if I aai noi sat-
isfied I ma/ return the book within 5 days and get my
money back.

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