Walt Whitman Junior High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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REPORT ON THB SOO-INCH TELESCOPE CThe San Francisco Scientific Review, January 14, 30013 The newly invented 800-inch tel- escope has proved successful in finding life on other planets. Mars' canals definitely are a sys- tem of waterways used by ships. Buildings and machinery left on Jupiter and Saturn by now extinct popu1ations,are crumbling. The buildings date back to the days when the two giants of the solar system had atmospheres similar to ours. - Inventions such as the telephone, telegraph, and electric light are still fairly new on Mercury. More modern life has been found on the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Their greenish surfaces are covered with forests and farms. A look at the moon has revealed that the craters are actually gtg- diums. Astronomers saw baseball TE'Efogress last June and football in November. A special sound pick-up has discovered that the moon's language is based on Eng- lish. There is no doubt about life like ours on Venus. Transporta- tion is by monorail trains, rockets, and jet-propelled cars. The Venusians have no postal system. Everyone over twenty-one Venusian years is given a ham radio set for only twenty ratchets Cequivalent of twenty dollarsS. In some ways the Venusians are more modern than we have ever been, having invented a jet plane opera- ted by flashlight batteries. Note: Life Magazine's Henry R. Luce XXI, has rented space on Venus Mars, and Mercury for Life Magazine headquarters' Donald Solomon A TRIP TO THE PU1jURE For weeks I had been working on my crude little Time Machine that was just large enough to seat me. At last, the day came when I would venture forth into the future. After adding a few finishing touch- es, I mounted the machine. With teeth clenched, I pressed the lever down. All of a sudden great nausea seized me. I started to go around in circles. Suddenly, I lurched forward and with a tremendous thrust was catapulted into space-up up, up. When I stopped, it was the year 2362. I had already gone 4000 years ahead of time. I looked all around but could see no sign of civilization. All about me was desert with no signs of life any- where. After a few minutes of resting. I again clenched my teeth, and pressed down on the lever. Nothing happened. Like a madman I tried to make the machine work, but in vain. So, here I am in the year 2362, alone and desolate, hoping someone else will invent a time machine to take me back home. Richard Janowitz :' s:'.. . sh! 'Z - -in V .ig E C - ll sg., ' ' - 'YFYI T :ra K Q 11... .v' :Lear 4. 4- U gzgfgir in A O gl' Z . fi'Lf, B - - -.nun k-q so bAvs. D E , ' lr 44 1 on 1' v',fn ' ,,o ,n I' D 'IJ . 7 'Oz 5- : 5 N , P U f fv 32-2 ' .3j2C5ZZ7Qu fgaggfisc. . !i5.?,,b I .v lf r , - , 4, - , 1 i - 9

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KFHWWW ,RESEARCH IN SCIENCE A Desireable Career In The Space Age Science as a career for junior high school boys and girls is a vital subject today because of re- cent advances in space, nuclear, and engineering research. Mr. Slotkin, ninth year science . . teacher, in a recent interview outlined possibilities of making science a life-time career. He stressed that the average student interested in science believes that he can become ei- ther a chemist, nuclear engineer, or space engineer, but that he does not know about the need for bright and enthusiastic researchers According to Mr. Slotkin, re- search is the most important in any scientific field. Without research none of the sciences could be applied. Too many of today's pupils are discouraged from research because of finan- cial reasons. The researchefs salary is considerably lower than the applied scientist's. This is very unjust but the salary of the researcher is being in- creased steadily. fj 6 Q What makes people go into research? Is it curiosity or dedication? Research is the most difficult field of science and presents a challenge. If you are successful in research, you have the thrill of original achieve- ment. HSome peop1e,n Mr. Slotkin says, Hare gifted enough to be- come researchers and are obligated to use their ta1ents.N He agrees with Dr. Albert Schweitzer who says, Uwhatever you have received more than others....in health, in talents, in ability, in success.. all this you must not take to your- self as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must render in return some sacrifice. We must give most of all, of ourse1ves.U Robert Brownstein l 8 1

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MATH IN THE SPACE AGE Mathematical problems which would take Scientists years to figure out are solved in minutes by electronic computers. These machines are manufactured by the International Business Machines Corporation, originally established by Dr. Herman Hollerith in 1911. The electronic era for the I.B.M Corporation began during World War II when it volunteered its services and skills. The company went to work on the computers for the automatic sighting and aiming of aircraft, anti-aircraft, and naval guns. During the war, elec- tronics became a leading industry. In 1948 I.B.M. introduced the S.S.E.C. CSelective Sequence Elect- ronic Calculatorj that could do thousands of calculations in sec- onds. It was the company's first large-scale computer to count electronic impulses as well as the first computer to employ selective sequences and the first electronic one to employ a stored program. In 1950 the Los Alamos atomic energy laboratory presented it with HProblem Hippon calling for nine million mathematical opera- tions. The machine worked for 150 hours to produce the answer. It would have taken a mathematician 1500 years to do the job. Each year man discovers many more new and extended uses for computers. Computers are used for: ll Searching equations to de- termine the best of many possible answers to a pro- blem such as the design of a rocket fin. 23 Reckoning probabilities to determine the liklihood of oil in certain kinds of underground strata. 33 Computing time and space factors such as those in- volved in the daily rout- ing of thousands of rail- way freight cars, 43 Reducing complication pro- mw xq cesses. - Q A Eff' l:llti I if The computer is a tool. It has a place in almost every form of ymsga-aa.J human activity. It holds great 0 Qaa-..n-m promise for the future. 1:3 'T I E223 Q Ricky Bernstein S --.QQNEISU 0 .. oobo 0 0 5 ,Q Qing 10 m oooooso09 U .az asm I B AX 0 casa A A R EJ OO 4uEjq:ELES1T 0'WWS