Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume VI, Number 26, 26 October 1933 — ARCTIC COLD OVER EOUATOR [ARTICLE]

ARCTIC COLD OVER EOUATOR

San Franckca Examiner If you were loqking |or a colder piaee tiie Nortli Poie, you i eertaialy would not go to Uie equatoi u> fiixd 4t, would you? Contrary. to„fAQt. as tlie slaLemeiut; may seem to be, you did, thia very thing your quest would pnri in Hipap, pointment. Meceoroiogists have fomid that it ia actually coider at the e<iuator than it is at the North ' Pole! lor proof of i,his scientists journejfed tna tropies ai?.d from a position on the equa^ fc T / sfi®t up sounding balloons equipped with m£veor-! 4 oiogical instruments. At heights six or seven miles above the equator the instrumehts registered a temr-eiature thafc was 20 degrees lower that of a similiar altitude over the Arctic regi<^ts. At the North ;Pole—sea level, 30° below z%sq, 40° SGVen mile ' S al^itud^ below zero, Differencel At the equatoi'—sea level, 80% at seven '''' altitude, 90: ; >elQ.w zqj:q, 1*70%. — —- , •-«*,.. Kerosene-So|^fed. Menh«|,pi>a A brick, soaked in kerosejae I Jfora day or two» i will burn for a long time when hghted, and il one is taken on hunU#g, or tripg, a firo ean be .even witk wet.material.A, pieee of brick, t the size of your fist, shQuM>um. over an hour. •• : . 1 *f 4 ' ' __ Coal Bemg Mmed Witli Saw Pppular Mechanics , . t Coal is now being mined with a sav? togt@Kl.stiE. being broken looee with explosives. The d&ve3npment of the coal,saw to its present practieal state has improved both Uae quality and value of niinhig men ,saim. le has likewise working conditjyans and safety in

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