The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-16
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

II They surge down broad thorough
n fare-"the Avenue of Flags" where
ahl hundreds of banners of every col
4 49, or hung from "modernistic" flag
A STATS of kind you've never seen
| S&%SA before, stream in the wind that
\ NNSA blows from off Lake Michigan. And
RAASJA then the buildings and streets and
\ I(&VhSV avenues and terraces and gardens
4 &8T and courts and lagoons that are
\ 4HH Chicago's A Century of Progress
! 81 swallow them up and their places
are taken by other thousands who
follow close behind
They are off upon a tour of the world-the
whole world spread out before their eyes with
in the space of 424 acres
Which foreign land will you visit first, Mr..
and Mrs. American and Young America? Shall
1t be Argentina Algeria Mexico or Morocco,
Guatemala or Czechoslovakia? From the hushed
solemnity of the Golden Temple Of Jehol, the
Chinese Lama temple where the Manchu en-
perors worshiped Buddha and the other gods two
centuries ago. it is but step to lively side
walk cafe in the MOntmartre section of Paris.
Would you prefer to be amused by dancing girls,
wrestlers jugglers and sword fighters in typ
ical Oriental street, or to watch the nimble
fingers of the handicraft artisans in Belgian
village made up of transplanted portions of
Client Bruges and Malines? The world is
"yOur oyster" Mr.. and Mrs. American and Young
America. All you have to do is open it!
No thrill in visiting foreign lands, you say?
And you never liked geography in school, any
way? Then trip "Farthest South by stepping
down into the hold of the ship which Admiral
Byrd sailed into the Antarctic may not thrill
you. But how about stepping into the bathy-
sphere in which DIR. William Beebe descended
2,2OO feet beneath the waters of the sea,
into this featherweight aluminium globe in which
Dr. August Picard assembled $4,000 feet into
the shakespeare? Certainly you can't say ooh,
everybody goes THERE!"
If A Century of Progress were "just another
worlds fair" the foregoing might be representa-
tive of 1.-The whole world" which it offers. But
there is another "world" which the visitor dis
covers here-the world of science and inven-
tion the new world that has been created by
the ingenuity of mankind during his progress
of the past century. And this is the world which
offers the thrills for unlike expositions of the
past with the customary static rows of still
exhibits A Century of Progress is a show in
motion.
Movement -. . action things in the process
of making or being Life That is the world
that is unfolded before your eyes. One of the
most important things in making this possible
is the diorama, small stage with realistical-
ly painted background and three-dmensional
actors built in perspective in the foreground.
Dioramas have been used for years in museums,
but here machines and chemical reagents take
the place of stuffed animals Molecules and
ions perform for you. You "see" radio wave
bringing you your fayorte music or the voice
of your favorite comedian You stand in front
of one case and push lever or two and under
your hand earthquake is produced, geysers
spout boiling water and volcanoes bech forth
lava and gas. For moment you are god
Mount Olympusi
Here is a series of gas flames burning in glass
tubes. Pull that lever The flames focused
blast comes from an amplifier only when the
sound is properly focused by the mirror. Talk
into another microphone and you see your own
voice, its modulations made visible by a cathode
ray oscillograph. And a talking movie tells you
why it talks!
Here is a familiar scene, in diorama setting.
Benjamin Franklin holds kite string in his
hand while sparks jump TO his knuckle from a
key. The electricity that he has drawn from
the storm clouds in the background is the same
as the static electricity produced by man.
Stroboscopes cause swiftly moving machines
to stand still and reveal their strains and
stresses to the eye. A simpliied broadcasting
studio shows how radio waves generated
lied light is passed through a sugar solution
revolving in a closed cylinder to reveal the vi
brations of the light
twenty-four-inch concave mirror casts the
image of a ball toward you and draws it back
just as it reaches you The strains in gears and
in a model bridge, when subjected to pressure.
are revealed by polarized light Ionization of
air, Xray and cosmic rays-an shown In