Further insight into the mysteries of the upper atmosphere will soon be avaiiable through the use of a radiation recording instrument now in the development stage at the Armour Research Foundation. The new development is a metal sphere, nicknamed the cannonbali, which will be ejected from a rocket at a height of 70 miles. The sphere contains three stabilizing gyroscopes, 14 temperature sensors, and a cam» titans 3 H w @ a. as 3 as a .. . a... a. .. asta so sas Sociologist Albert Biderman and BE Instructor James W. Fairu child. of the industrial personnel counseling firm of Fairchild and era unit. The United States Air Forces, sponsors of the project, approved news releases by Dr. Severin Ray- nor of ARF in July, 1949. Results of the use of the instrument may not be immediately available be— cause of the military significance of the data. Stabilization and suitable instru- mentation are the principal prob- lems now being solved by Dr. Ray- nor and his staff of mechanical and electrical engineers, physicists and laboratory technicians. Gyroscopes provide the answer to the question of how to maintain a steady, con- trolled fall. . ‘ Radiation measurements will be made by button—shaped tempera- ture sensors on the surface of the sphere and the data will be re- corded by a specially designed cam- era. After the film is used up the camera unit is in turn ejected from the cannon ball and parachutes slowly to the ground. Its location is determined by tracking a small, attached, high frequency radio transmitter. Prior to the advent of rockets the only methods of obtaining dc- scriptive data of the little-known upper atmosphere were spectros~ copy and radiowave reflection from the inosphere. Unmanned balloons cannot rise very high without bursting and manned balloons still less. In 1935 man rose to the height of 13.7 miles carrying spec- trum analysis equipment where quantitative and qualitative meas urements of the gases present were made. Layers of ozone, water va- por, and what is supposedly cosmic dust have been identified. It is these layers, which, with the help of lower atmosphere dust, disperse and absorb the sun’s most powerful rays, thus protecting the earth from destruction. At the height at which the con— nonball will starts its descent the temperature will be about 180 de— grees Fahrenheit, according to ARF sources. Another source of information in agreement with this hypothesis is a captured German document prepared by eminent me- teorologists in Europe during the M. «a ‘a’ z. 2'» . r . ; war. The translated papers also maintain that the aurora borealis and its southern counterpart, the aurora australis, are caused by the intense radiation of rarefied gases. Spectroscopy has shown these gases consist chiefly of oxygen and nitro» gen. Helium and hydrogen, former— ly believed to inhabit the strato— sphere becausc of their lightness, are not present at increased tem— peratures, they attain a sufficient velocity to escape the earth’s gravi- tational pull. Thunder’s booming voice is in~ tensified by reflection from ionized layers at rocket altitude“. Density and height of layers of the ionosphere have been obtained from American Army check sta- tions all over the world which propagate short-wave radio from quencies into the upper atmosphere and monitor reflections. The higher the frequency the further the waves travel before reflection/roe» curs. it is hoped the cannonbali will corroborate these evidences. ,a g, n .a,..14,,» s ,%,. 0.} ”Jo {it Harrison, will tangle in the latest Business and Economics club debate Monday at 4 pm. in 305M. The debate. according to the sponsors, will “cover the field of personnel management embracing such vague terms as anatomy of, organization, personnel work, so~ cial controls and labor organiza— tion, efficiency, scientific manage- ment, and even unionization of engineers." William Harrison, also of the BE department, grudgingly prom~ iscs only moral support from the sidelines while his colleague meets Eider-man’s challenge to their “human-relations” theories. BE club spokesmen are predicting a slugi’est on the basis of past per- formances by the Messrs. Fairchild and Harrison. The verbal en— counter is the first of a series the club will sponsor this semester. Students in the human relations course, BE 462, are looking for— ward with special interest to the debate which directly involves their field of study. \‘ “ so: ~n; was? - r 1, .. . ‘. Ts xez“ 1.; . A fifliifl’i‘ifltii ,, aaa satiety flanison diorama, says: “Ehcstcrficld was my cigarette in college and itys my cigarctte today. 'i‘hoyire always MllLDER.” s‘. M3?“ 33'" K; a ‘1'. so“ ‘32; A as CO-STARRING IN “@ti'i’glflh sass “Whit." A UNlVERSAL‘lNTERNATiONAL PlCTURE WlLLlAM HQW’ARD DOANE UBRMW DENlSON UNiVEllSlTV V aarsaaaa sass ass” sass sass as amass sf sass ass aassssaasaa amiss iiiasasaaas starfish" saaaaiaa as alas {asasa sass sass .i. Broadening of student coopera— tion with IlT’s placement program will be discussed at a meeting of the lnterprofcssionai council next week, Johnnie Best, acting chair-i man, has indicated. l‘hc council is composed of chiei executive of- ficers of the pro: ,ssional societies, who will be individually notified of the time and place, of the meeting. Also on the agenda of this IPC meeting will be election of perma» nent officers for the semester, furtherance of its publicitywco» ordination scheme, and program- ming of other activities. A perti— nent message will be given by placement director Harold L. 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