The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City uses roughly 400,000 cubic feet of helium gas in total to inflate its iconic giant balloons. Besides being lighter than air and ...

If you’d like to make a point about the physics of helium balloons, just stick one in a vacuum. One of the earliest physics demonstrations that I ever witnessed was a simple one explaining the motion ...

Otis, Kansas, produces and ships helium used to inflate Macy’s parade balloons. Messer plant cools, compresses and liquefies gas used to fill more than 30 balloons. Otis plant has supplied Macy’s ...

Otis, Kansas, is almost smack-dab in the middle of the Sunflower State, a community of about 280 people named after the son of the man who founded the town in 1886. It has a farmers coop, post office, ...