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It's a simple device – a set of vanes mounted on a spindle, enclosed in a partially evacuated glass bulb. Each vane is silvered on one side and blackened on the other. When the Crookes radiometer is placed in sunlight or near heat, the vanes spin ro
How Thomas Hicks survived his trainer's belief in the benefits of strychnine and brandy to win the marathon at the 1904 Olympics in St Louis