February 2016 Issue of Physics Today Is Online & in the Mail
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In the February 2016 Issue
The Bicentennial of Francis Ronalds’s Electric Telegraph
Decades before the work of Samuel Morse, a young Englishman laid out his vision for a future world of telecommunication. — Beverley F. Ronalds
Sensing Deep-Ocean Temperatures
Though not yet widely implemented, the technique of monitoring the ocean’s warming via changes in the speed of sound through the water is a powerful complement to the more common tools available: free-floating thermometers and altimetry satellites. — Karim G. Sabra, Bruce Cornuelle, and William A. Kuperman
The Peaceful Atom Comes to Campus
Youthful idealism, institutional ambition, and Cold War sensibilities all helped shape the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project, the University of Michigan’s tribute to fallen World War II soldiers. — Joseph D. Martin
...and much more!