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MANSFIED NEWS (MANSFIELD, OHIO)March 25th, 1927 NEW DISCOVERY TO BE AID TO AVIATORSNEW YORK March 25 (AP)The New York American in a copyrighted story today says a new discovery in action of electrons when thrown with terrific force against a mirror of cesium, a rare and costly metal, is to be enlisted to aid aviators flying in thick weather or in fog at night.Raymond R. Machlett, scientist and Cornell alumnus, the paper says, has devised, after several years of research, an ionic discharge tube twenty-seven feet long filled with neon gas which lights and widely diffuses ?rainbow light?.Current of 500 milliamperes is passed between an anode and an electrode through this super-tube, an achievement which is said to surpass any previous experiment with neon gas.
The other day at a thrift shop I bought, for a quarter, one of the Machlett rainbow bulbs. It was buried in a box of Xmas tree bulbs. When I can get hold of a digital camera I will send a picture of it in operation.
I had always thought that Machlett was a maker of X-ray tubes and nothing more....
now all I have to do is figure out how to get the picture onto this site