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VIEWS OF A SCIENTIST "CANNOT BE STOPPED" LONDON. Sept. 23 Atmospherics are born with tails and heads. They drop the tails in early life, and eventually split themselves in halves. So Mr. Robert Alexander Watt, superintendent of the radio department of the national physical laboratory, revealed in a speech to the International Scientific Radio Union. " Scientists," Mr. Watt declared, " have no more hope of stopping atmospherics than they have of stopping rain. They can only erect a sort of wireless umbrella. Wo are rapidly improving that umbrella."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21921, 3 October 1934, Page 11
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