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December 2023: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

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December 2023: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
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Black hole sun; the deepest mine

By Mark Fischetti

The eye of a mosaic fly

1973, Fly’s Eye: The eye of a mosaic fly (which has original and mutant genotypes) “is an array of hexagonal ommatidia, each containing eight photoreceptor cells (circles) and two primary pigment cells (crescents), surrounded by six shared secondary pigment cells (ovals). The fact that a single ommatidium can have white and normal genotypes shows its cells are not necessarily descended from a common ancestral cell.”

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Scientific American, Vol. 229, No. 6; December 1973

1973

Nobel Prize Winners, No Ph.D. Needed

“The 1973 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever ‘for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors respectively,’ and to Brian Josephson ‘for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier.’ Tunneling occurs because particles have the properties of waves; such waves do not stop abruptly at a barrier but penetrate some tiny but measurable distance. It is remarkable that all three of the recipients did their prizewinning work before they had received their doctorate.”

1923

Edison Inspired by Gas lighting

“There are 350,000,000 incandescent lamps in the U.S. and about an equal number in foreign countries. When Edison first studied incandescent light, commercial arc lights operated on the ‘series’ system, the only system for distributing electricity known. Current generated in the dynamo flowed through the field coils, out to one lamp after another over a wire, then back to the dynamo. One lamp could not be turned on or off without doing the same with all the others. Edison realized it never would be satisfactory for household lighting. He decided to pattern electric lighting after gas lighting, with which it would compete. He reasoned that a constant-pressure system could be made similar to that of gas. In 1879 he made a dynamo which met every requirement, and a carbon lamp in which the filament consisted of a carbonized piece of ordinary thread. On October 21, 1879, current was turned into the lamp and it lasted forty-five hours. All incandescent lamps today embody the original features.”

The Deepest Mine

“The deepest hole in the earth is a gold mine in Brazil, known as the Morro Velho or St. John del Rey mine. The St. John del Rey Mining Company has been working it almost continuously since 1834. The mine is now 6,726 feet below the surface. The temperature of the rock at the lowest level is 117 degrees. The miners work in an air temperature of 98 degrees. The outside air has an average temperature of 68 degrees, but is cooled to 42 degrees before being forced to the lowest levels by powerful fans. On its way it gains heat from the rocks and from its own compression, because air at that great depth is considerably denser than air at sea level.”

1873

Impervious Sun Will Kill Us All

“The New Orleans Picayune tersely gives the results of the learned scientific Americans who lately met in Portland. ‘Professor Young tells us that the sun is nothing but a gigantic spherical mass of gaseous matter, which is constantly being contracted by the gradual cooling of its outside circumference. The central kernel of this huge star will always finally be crusted over with a thick, impervious coating, through which neither light nor heat can possibly reach us. The result, as far as we are concerned, will be total darkness, intense cold, the end of animal life and a return to primeval chaos.’”

Competing Routes for Panama Canal

“The Secretary of the Navy states that the two expeditions authorized by Congress to survey a canal route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans have finished their labors. The Darien expedition has selected a route including 100 miles of river navigation of the Atrato. Between this river and the Pacific a canal is necessary, 28 miles in length. The Nicaragua expedition has determined a practicable route having Lake Nicaragua as its summit. It is proposed to connect this lake with the Pacific by a canal 16.33 miles in length; an independent canal 41.9 miles in length is needed. The Darien seems to be much more direct and easier to construct.”

In 1902 the Isthmian Canal Commission decided on a third route, which became the Panama Canal of today.

Covers of Scientific American from December 1973, 1923 and 1873.

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