Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur B. Lamb, Erving Professor of Chemistry, emeritus, and Frederick G. Keyes, Chairman Emeritus of the department of Chemistry at M.I.T., were employed by Alfred Bicknell Associates, a Cambridge firm, to perfect the Alcometer, which accurately measures a person's alcohol content by taking an electrochemical sniff of his breath...
Chief asset of the machine is the speed with which it works, enabling police to tell within seven minutes whether a person has too much alcohol in his blood stream to operate a car safely...
...subject breathes into a tube connected with the machine. Alcohol in his breath reacts with a mixture of iodine and oxygen to yield free iodine. Photo-electric measurements of the intensity of a beam of light passed through the free iodine in a starch solution record the alcoholic content on a dial...
...Truck. Republic Aviation Corp. of Farmingdale, N.Y. told about its giant truck-borne Thermos bottle for fueling rockets and rocket planes. One tank on the 12½-ton truck contains 700 gallons of water-alcohol mixture. A second, 900-gal, tank, carefully insulated, carries "lox" (liquid oxygen), which is also needed by rockets. Since lox gasifies above -297° F., the insulated tank is necessary for fueling on the field...
...program will offer discussions of scientific and practical insights to the many problems of alcohol in society. Use of alcoholic beverages including law enforcement, instruction in high schools, and the prevention of alcoholism will be some of the specific problems to be studied, Bacon declared...