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WHEN GAS GIANT "FLASHES"
WAS JUST WASTE
It's hard to believe in this day of gas-eating automobiles, but there was a time when gasoline was a waste product. The oil in- dustry didn't know what to do
with it. Think of that, next time you watch the clock hand on the filling station gas tank whirl mer-
rily around clink-clink.....
Yes sir. A model of the first
FOR AIR PHOTOS?
Giant photographic] the flash bulb was at its peak of *llumination. The flash, he said, flash bulbs of an estimated
illuminated a Ave-mile-square 1,000,000 candle power area sufficiently for photographic purposes, and provided light equal each provided the illumi-to that of the sun when it is un nation by which Army the horizon. fliers photographed Roch- Eastman Kodak physicists
ester from the air Oct. 9 in what was said to have oil refinery built by the late John been the first major test D. Rockfeller is on exhibit at the of night aerial photogra- Field Museum of Natural Historyphy in history.
here. When Mr. Rockefeller built the original in 1863, at Cleveland, Ohio, oil refineries were chiefly interested in making kerosene for lamps, the museum says. This
Secret in content and operation, the bombs were dropped from an aeroplane flying at 5,000 feet. Each time one exploded a synchronised camera flashed a picture and then
measured light intensity of the bombs from the roof of one of . their buildings as the bombs burst over the city with resound- ing noises. They measured "can- dle power in the billions," but the exact power of each bomb remained a military secret.
ments, Major Goddard said, should Practical results of the experi- be opportunity for Army Biers to photograph enemy objectives and
-done, great quantities of gasoline rolled up its own film by means troop movements under cover of
remained as a by-product. And, what to do with it?
of a complicated cell device.
photoelectric
night. So intense is the flash of each bomb, the observing 'plane is kept invisible from ground bat-
The experiments were conduct There were no automobiles, noed by U. S. Army men under Maj.terics. aeroplanes, farm tractors, motor-George W. Goddard, Army pho- ships, nor many of the other mod- tographic research chief, who has ern day contraptions that run by been working with physicists from internal combustion.
The first refinery ever built, says Henry W. Nichols, Chief Curator of Geology at the Mus- eum, was manufactured eight years previously, in 1855. Primi:- ive in construction, it produced a kerosene that sold for $1.25 a gallon,
the Eastman Kodak Company. They marked the culmination of experiments worked out by Major Goddard over a period of 14 years.
"Five-Mile Square".
The photographic device, Major Goddard revealed, permitted the camera shutter to operate when
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“Daylight” In A Bulb
"There have been times in the history of the world when an hour more of daylight would have changed the tide of battle and, in turn, influenced the sweep of his- tory," Major Goddard said. “We now have that daylight in this light bulb."
Only one five thousandth of a second expires between the time the bomb bursts and the
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Major Goddard envisaged the time when night photographs would be developed aloft and their results radioed to home bases.
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