SCIENCE IN 1933
GREAT ADVANCE EXPECTED. CONTROL OF SFX. LONDON. -Tan. 1. Sir Richard Gregory, the noted scientist, expects that increasing public attention will he paid to science in 1933. and in an article hi a newspaper adds: — ‘Tt will soon he possible to build muscles and nerves in children in incubators. and control sox. Experiments ca electrical stimulus of the brain give hope to the blind and the dent. Mo also may hope to sec inorganic substances converted into food.
GAS IN WARFARE. DR EA D F FT, POSSTBILITITIES. LONDON, Jan. 1. The Earl of Halsburv, writing on the perils of gas in tuture warfare, foresees that victims will he maddened by irritation till they lose aU mental control ol their actions. Ho say's that some modern gasses with an arsenical base may he carried in liquid form, and a comparatively small charge of a high explosive is sufficient to release their terrors when sprayed from planes. One part of diphenyl-chloro-arsene in fifty million parts of air is so potent that a human being is unable to live mole than five minutes alter inhaling it.
The population of London and environs could he destroyed in two or throe days.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11835, 4 January 1933, Page 3
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