How Many Elephants Do You Carry?
How .many elephants can you carry? Absurd? But, as a matter of fact, even a schoolboy carries the equal of two full-grown elephants, and when he grows up he has to carry three, according to an Australian broadcaster. A normal adult has to carry, day and night, a weight of more than 30,000 pounds on the outside of his body. That is the pressure exerted on him at the bottom of the ocean of air in which he lives. Yet it took man many thousands of years to realise even that this enormous load existed; men looking for nothing discovered it in the 17th Century. They were trying to create a vacuum, and they discovered air pressure.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 45, 3 May 1940, Page 36
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123How Many Elephants Do You Carry? New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 45, 3 May 1940, Page 36
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