Cosmic Kay Records.—Under the auspices of the Carnegie Institute, Professor Compton of the University of Chicago, is establishing a chain of five cosmic-ray recording stations round the world. The source of cosmic rays is as yet unknown, and it is to record the manner in which they reach the earth that the stations are being erected. One of these stations is now being commissioned in Hagley Park, Christchurch, and the photographs above show the insulated hut (left) which houses the argon-filled lead-sheathed steel bomb which incorporates the Compton-Bennett ray-recording metre (right).
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 139, 7 March 1936, Page 7
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91Cosmic Kay Records.—Under the auspices of the Carnegie Institute, Professor Compton of the University of Chicago, is establishing a chain of five cosmic-ray recording stations round the world. The source of cosmic rays is as yet unknown, and it is to record the manner in which they reach the earth that the stations are being erected. One of these stations is now being commissioned in Hagley Park, Christchurch, and the photographs above show the insulated hut (left) which houses the argon-filled lead-sheathed steel bomb which incorporates the Compton-Bennett ray-recording metre (right). Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 139, 7 March 1936, Page 7
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