Paper: Deming Headlight City: Deming, New Mexico Date: Friday, January 18, 1946 Page: 3
Scientist Puts Divining Rod "Out Of Date" Albuquerque - Scientists make fun of the old divining rod or forked stick which was supposed to jump when it neared buried treasures of the earth, but now Prof. Lincoln LaPaz of New Mexico has an electro-magnetic device which can make the "treasure" do the jumping. In an article in Contributions of the Society for Research on Meteorites, Dr. LaPaz, president of the society and head of the department of mathematics and director of the Institute of Meteoritics at New Mexico, describes an electromagnetic came which facilitates discovery of meteorites near the surface of the ground and eliminates many a stoop-over backache. The device can readily pick up an Odessa iron meteorite weighing more than a pound, and "caused smaller fragments to jump an inch or more to the collecting tip," says a description of the device in Harvard University's journal Sky and Telescope. Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor and meteorite articles. |
