Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For American scientist‘s Science quickly, I am Rachel Feltman.
It is possible that we have noticed that we have been taking a break from our usual news round of Monday to leave space for special episodes, including our bird flu series, as well as to accommodate a summer vacation and vacation plans for our small but powerful team. We will return to the news summary format next week.
For today I thought it would be fun to immerse yourself in the American scientist Archives for a few minutes. Let’s see what Sciam It was until exactly a century, in July 1925.
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I will begin with the cover history of the theme, which was contributed by the curator of marine life in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and seems to have been written, at least, to present readers the concept of tidal pools. These are bloody in rocky coastal areas that during the high tide are filled with water, which remains trapped once the tide returns.
The writer describes the abundant marine life that can be found in the high tide puddles of Woods Hole, Massachusetts and other Massachusetts tide areas, poetics about flags and marine worms, which compares with “Acrobats” and “Diosas of the sea”, respectively. One hundred years later, scientists and laity are still quite taken with tide pools. They are really interesting environments: during the low tide, they are generally surface enough so that they can get quite warm, which can be a challenge for organisms that live within them. Other difficulties for these organisms include the fact that tide pools are easy to access for predators such as birds and crabs. In addition to that, oxygen levels in the pool fall between new seawater infusions. In addition, tide pool residents often have to endure waves when the ocean reaches them again.
Much has changed since 1925, but reviewing the tidal pools is still a great hobby for anyone hanging on the coast. Depending on where you live, you can detect anemones, sea stars, corals and even octos, among other things.
The problem also presents a somewhat scathing evaluation of the United States commercial aviation industry as was in 1925. According to American scientistThe editors, someone who visited from abroad asked if one could travel from New York to Chicago by plane. (By the way, he asked this question by calling the magazine’s office. Life was difficult before Google).
The editors told him that he would have to hire his own plane to make that trip, which would be very expensive. But that made them think: would this reasonable request be in the country of origin of the traveler? Thus began SciamThe investigation of the world of commercial flight. Rip Sciam editors, you would have loved The essay.
The resulting article indicates that in the US, in 1925 the mail from one coast to another was used mainly. Meanwhile, the article explains, the countries of Europe were already in the middle of an aviation boom, using aircraft to move people and products everywhere. According to the article, one could travel from London to Berlin for $ 40, which amounts to around $ 753 today. That is not exactly the negotiation air rate, but it is not so Far from what a modern steering wheel could pay to travel in executive class, and one can imagine that most people who pay for the privilege of air trips in 1925 traveled for important businesses, after cash or, most likely, both.
It is clear that the American scientist The editors were dismayed when they found the United States lagged so far. In a box entitled, quite dramatically, “Are we negligent people?” The magazine asks what has been from American aviation. “We invent the plane, neglect it and let Europe the task of putting it in a widely extended commercial service,” says the section probably with a transatlantic accent. “As people, we are supposed to have a perfect genius to practice rapid fire methods in our industrial activities. We are supposed to have developed time saving time in an exact science and we have shown the world how The mail of the light of men, which comes out the desire to make money.
That is not the only aviation tea in the July 1925 edition. In the section “Our point of view” of the magazine, the editors reflect on the decision of Orville Wright to send the first planes that transport the person to the British National Museum. If you are not familiar with this historical scandal, here is the essence: the Wright brothers are famous for making the first controlled and controlled flight in 1903. But for decades the Smithsonian institution tried to give that honor to Samuel Langley, his former secretary, whose flying machine himself had crashed a few days before the Wright plane was successful. In 1914, the director of Smithsonian had modernized Langley plane to prove that he could have flown, if he had not failed, and used it to grant him the credit. The museum showed the plane with a poster to that direction. Orville Wright was understandably disgusted. In American scientistThe July 1925 number, the editors say that the museum’s exhibition is misleading and that Langley He definitely did not defeat the Wright brothers. “The whole matter, in fact, can be considered as a great storm in a teapot,” the editors wrote, “and could easily prepare if the Smithsonian institution eliminated the objectable banner and changed it so that there could be no possible misunderstandings.” That would not really happen until 1928, and the Smithsonian did not apologize until 1942. But well, we try!
Although the United States was left behind on the commercial flight, a graph of the 1925 number shows that we were leading the load in at least one technological sand: Gabing on the phone. The infographic argues that 62.9 percent of world phones in 1925 were located in the United States and that the country also led the way on per capita phones. We also went ahead in terms of the frequency with which people went up to the horn: the average person in the United States apparently sent 182 messages by phone every year, and the second place went to Denmark with 123. And the Russians, the editors said, were “happy with four and a half called” each. “Surely we are talking a lot, but are we really saying something?
That’s all for today’s archive adventure. We will return Wednesday to talk about some of SciamThe best summer reading recommendations. And tune in next week to return to our old news roundup.
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