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A Celestial Encounter by Ernest William Brown is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.
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ON THE morning of Saturday, January 24, 1925, the State of Connectic~ut suspended its daily life for half an hour in order to see the most striking spectacle of the skies--a total eclipse of the sun, From factories, stores, offices, banks, schools, colleges, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were collected on roofs, at windows, and in the open. Other states poured their tens of thousands into the shadow track by automobile, trolley, and railroad. A dirigible and many airplanes sought special views aloft. Photographic cameras and radio sets were in operation in uncounted numbers and ubiquitous news reporters lost no phase of the situation. In a few favored spots small handfuls of astronomers were working quietly but at high speed to learn more about the heavens. The stage was set some four years before when the Nautical Almanac Office at Washington, which is entrusted with the duty of furnishing predictions of the positions of the heavenly bodies, announced that the moon would hide the sun from a small portion of the earth on that morning, and that the shadow track would cross nearly the whole of the state. It foretold the northern and \* This paper is, in substance,
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- Author
- Ernest William Brown
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0016-0032)
- Published
- 1926
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)