{"id":3435,"date":"2009-08-18T08:03:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2009-08-18T08:03:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:03:08","slug":"the-dawn-of-the-squeaky-voice-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3435","title":{"rendered":"The Dawn of the Squeaky-Voice Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to celebrate Helium, that noble gas, once again.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/thisdayintech\/2009\/08\/dayintech_0818\/\">Aug. 18, 1868: Helium Discovered During Total Solar Eclipse<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>French astronomer Pierre Jules C\u00e9sar Janssen camped out in Guntoor, India, to watch as the moon passed in front of the sun and revealed the solar prominences. Like other sun-gazers that morning, Janssen discovered that the prominences were mostly made of super-hot hydrogen gas. But he also noticed something extra: Using a special prism instrument called a spectroscope, he determined that the line of yellow light everyone had assumed to be sodium didn\u2019t match up to the wavelength of any known element.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We did this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/673\">last year<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to celebrate Helium, that noble gas, once again. Aug. 18, 1868: Helium Discovered During Total Solar Eclipse French astronomer Pierre Jules C\u00e9sar Janssen camped out in Guntoor, India, to watch as the moon passed in front of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3435\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}