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TRYING
TO
HARNESS
THE
SUN'S
HEAT.
Every once
in
a while somebody
comes
forward
with an idea
to utilize
the
sun’s
energy.
‘The
latest
addition
1s Bernard
Girossman,
a
graduate
of
the
N. Y. city
¢ llege, who proposes
thuat engines
be
run
run
with
power
genera'ion
from
the
sl3’s rays,
In arecent
demon-tration
in
.he
college
laboratory
he
wves able
to
op-
erate
a miniature
engzine.
Parabolie
cop-
per mirrors
cavzht
and focused
the
rays
on
a test
tube of water,
the heat causing
steam
which in
turn operatae]
the
tiny en-
gine
at hizh speed,
Grossman
intends
t.
build
a larger model
to
tast
his theory.
Howeve®
the
idea
of puiting
the
sun
to such
use
is not.
new,
The disrovery
of
some
method
ol
uritizing
this energy
is
regarded
by
scientists
n2s
essential
to
continue
civilization
in the
future
when
the earth’s
eoal
and
oil supnlies
are
ex-
hausted
Grossman.stoeat
eontributes
no-
thing
to
the
solutiou
of
the
problem,
Many others
have
succeeded
in doing the
same
thing.
Even
now
lenses
and
mir-
rors
are
being
employed
for
the
same
purpose
in California
and
on
the desert
of
Sahara
with
but
nominal
snccess,
While the ilea
works
out in
small
expe-
riments
it is not much
of a
sucecess
when
attempted
on
a big scale.
Though
Prof.
Charles
Abbot
of
Mt.
Wilson
observatory,
Cal.
believes
that
the sun’s
energy
will
some
day be
used
for lighting, motive ana heating purposes
he points
out that
one of
the
great
diffi-
culties
faced
is the problem
of collecting
he
energy
in
parts
of
the
earth
freed
from clouds
and relaying
it
to other
sce-
Bions.
The
sun produces
one horsepower
of energy
for
every
20
square
feet of
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surface
and
1.95
calories
of
heat
per
cubic
centimeter.
luis through
the
worg
of Dr, Abbot,
aided
by the
“bolometer,”’
an
instrument
invented
by
Langley,
that
the
energy
and
heat
of th2
sun
and
other
stars
has
bezen
determined
The
Pati-
finder
TO EXCAVAIE HILL OF OPHEL
IN JERUSALEM
French
and
British
archaeologists
will
shortly
begin
the
excavations
of
the
foundations
of
ancient
Jerusalem
They
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will start
on
the
Hill of
Opbhelin
the
southeastern
corner
of
the
Holy
City.
in
it
they hope
to
find
traces
of early
Hebrew
eivilization-.
It
1s
disputed
|
whether
this
hiil
was
the
true
site
|
of
the
city
of
David, especially
since
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of
Semeties
at
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of
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of
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chosen
the site
nearest
tho
spring
heiow
the eastern
hill.
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