Re: True Bohr story?

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

If I remember correctly the page included a drwng. of the student knocking on
the Super.'s door holding the barometer in his (no longer PC) other hand.  The
editor was an anti-flouridationist -- arguments so cogent that I didn't dismiss
it out of hand.

bc

P.s.  I remember its being in the Sat. Review of Lit. but not the issue; you
did?

Did this article initiate the urban (academic) legend?

Rick Strickert wrote:

> A similar story of using a barometer to measure the height of a  building
> (but with no mention of Bohr) is at
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/2_12.html#subindex
> <http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/2_12.html#subindex>
>
> It came from an article is by Alexander Calandra and appeared first in "The
> Saturday Review" (December 21, 1968, p 60). It is also in the collection
> "More Random Walks in Science" by R.L.Weber, The Institute of Physics, 1982.
>
> The webpage also has some emails suggesting other (Petard-like) ways to use
> a barometer to measure the height of a building, no doubt suitable for
> future urban legends.
>
> Rick Strickert, Ph.D.
> Radian International
> Austin, TX
> ---  All IMO!  ---