JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
It might have made it more exciting for the readers to know that the fall would've taken about 2.73 seconds from 120'--I think the results are pretty much exactly the same whether the 60mph man was in a car or not so far as the effects of the sudden stop at the bottom goes. In any event, it was an effective way of relating the dangers of ultra-auto-speed in 1932.
[Source: Popular Mechanics, April, 1932, p. 537.]
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