Popular science monthly . ected intothe air and thenfell beneath a pileof debris. Whenhe was extricatedhe was found to bedeaf, and a fewdays later in anEnglish hospital henoticed to his greatsurprise that therewere tufts of whitehair on t lie left side of his head. The loss ofcolor was complete from the roots to theenilsof tiie hairsand the longest hairs werejust as white as the shortest. There wasnot a brown hair amidst them. The grayhairs were solidly implanted and couldbe pulled out only by considerable investigation brought outthe fact that the patients left side of thehea
Popular science monthly . ected intothe air and thenfell beneath a pileof debris. Whenhe was extricatedhe was found to bedeaf, and a fewdays later in anEnglish hospital henoticed to his greatsurprise that therewere tufts of whitehair on t lie left side of his head. The loss ofcolor was complete from the roots to theenilsof tiie hairsand the longest hairs werejust as white as the shortest. There wasnot a brown hair amidst them. The grayhairs were solidly implanted and couldbe pulled out only by considerable investigation brought outthe fact that the patients left side of thehead and face was most injured by theexplosion and the fall of earth. He alsosulfered from an incessant twitching ofthe left eyelid. As his hair was whitenedsolely on the left side the physicianscame to the conclusion that the injuriessustained were directly responsible, butthey arrived at no definite fact, science has yet to find a. causefor the sudden turning gray of the hair. Toying with HighTension Currents. At left, Prof. Thordarsonand his helper and operat-ing expert, Mr. Lindstrom Below, using an umbrella to ex-periment with a three to six-inchspark from the safety-screen ELECTRICAL science has broughtforth so many startling discoveriesin the last decade or two that eventhe average person is rather proof againstbeing astonished at anything. Ahnostincredible accomplishnients of an inven-tors years of unremitting labors areoften dismissed with the faint praisethat electricity is only in its almost all other things, however,there are exhibitions of electric forcethat tickle the public fancy withoutcon\eying au},^ idea of commercial good example of this is seen in thetheatrical displays with high-frequencycurrents, the beholders little realizingthat they arc interesting applications ofthe same power employed in wirelesstelegraph transmission. A remarkable electrical constructionwhich has excited great interest in boththe curious spectator and
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