The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-26
ART OF WEIGHING
Wonderful Scales that are not made
OF ANYTHING.

The art % weighing has expande,
into comprehensive science aud caI
no longer be called mere art Scale,
are made OF metal, but the set herein
described is not made of anything
Scales are in hourly use that eau
] weigh pencil mark whose length is
one-fourth of an inch: or Il section of
a hair or equal length The usual
practice i'm weighing runs from grains.
ounces. pounds up Ia tons. usually one
ton. and then up To lifty or more tons
in railroad weighing. costing hundreds
! and thousands Of dollars.
But humans would find il quite dill.
cult 10 make scales that would weigh
millions, billions. triilions. uuudrillions.
! quintllions. seXtilli0us. septilliuus. oc-
! tillions and Honillions Of tons. or de
| cillionS An instrument able 10 weigh
Il decillion tons can now Ice purchased
| for one cent-a pencil The scales are
not made of metal; instead set and
hNed specific speed is the next 10 al
powerful engine used liut IL Is far
more easy To run II locomotive or
steamship without knowing single
law of these complex machines than
To even attempt To- use the speed
scales without knowing every minute
Detail OF every velocity law of NOV
ing bodies.
Let street car start from rest and
Keep moving faster and faster until IT.
rate of motion is, say. twenty miles
per hour ut the end of one minute. If
the speed of the car Increased uniform
~ during the entire minute its aver
age speed is ten miles per hour. be- |
cause il started from rest ana in. |
creased 10 twenty miles per hour. IL /
body moves during one minute at |
twenty miles per hour the distance |
traverSed will be speed multiplied by
time, or twenty miles multiplied by
one-sixtieth of an hour. or one-third
or mile: but the average speed i'm |,
case or the car is ten miles per hour l
so that the distance moved over is half
as great or onesiXth mile This is
fundamental law OF nature and Is of
enormous Importance
Law: For uniformly increasing
speed, starting from rest. the velocity
increases with the time but the dis
lance traversed is that moved over by
the moving body with its average
speed. or one half
lf measuring the distance fallen
through by Il body let fall nc the rig
idly exact beginning Of one second or
time to the rigidIy exact end thereof is
what shall he said Of finding
how fast ii is falling mt the end OF the
second. Go try; work from the ages OF
twenty to sixty years daily and you
VIII fail. The fact IS, the time required
to find the mathematically exact she.
rillc speed OF Il falling body I'm still air
was almost that required to measure
the distance of the nearest star. about
l2O years |
Then Atwood invon:rd his machine 5
lnd this finally came 10 some near an. /
proach to accuracy. But this instru- 4
nent of precision fell far short of the 4
Electrical chronographic apparatus I
When all or this very complex mcclan /
SIN Is In perfect order II releases the q
Dall ut the exact beginning of n sec.
'nd ana records the absolute time on Il
he cylinder OF Il chronograph electric 1
lily and repeats the process at the alb e
olute end of the second so far as nm. G
nan hands are able To do rigidly accu. Il
ate work II
The moment that those supermen. n
Newton and Liebnitz. discovered that h
mighty power. beside which all else Il
luman palcs into insignhcance-the n
tupendOus calculus or differentials- I,
very mathematician saw immediately ~
hat one OF natures most magnificent
Avs was found In falling bodies. And II
hen becan the relentless and arduous "a
elf imposed work Of more than II hun. IA
red years 10 find the set specific speed =,
cduired by falling body mt the in :,
and absolutely exact end ~
T the first exactly measured second of a.
line since man appeared q,
The result is one grand. all potent :,
u powerful mean or average of cen. =,
lry OF world wide measures. the dla. -,
lond OF diamonds the most valuable -.
lumber in possession of man. the as n,
'onOmical balance:
Sixteen and one-tenth feet fallen To -.
nd or the first second: 32.2 feet Der =,
'cond speed ut end of first second "
That Is, body let fall will. under
le action of the eartll's attraction Of ~
ravitation. fall 1G1 feet during the
rst absolute second of time. and at ~
Ia absolute end of the second will be " "
motion with n velocity Of 800 feet va ",
pr second. These numbers constitute "'
IT, most accurate ana all powerful w
'aleS In existence. Edgar Lncien Lar. IL
m In New York. American. ~
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