Old Physics Joke

[beamjockey]

The Google Life trove documents a thousand encounters between scientists and photographers.

There's an oft-retold story-- it seems to have first seen print with John J. McPhaul in his 1962 book Deadlines and Monkeyshines: the Fabled World of Chicago Journalism (thanks again, Google!) -- about a photographer named Sam. He was assigned to cover a

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Great story, great photos. Especially the top photo, which may have just transmuted me into a practitioner of steampunk. I desperately want to make that mask and...valve assembly?, and wear that hall costume.