Word: alloy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curie, discovered that-although magnetism is gradually lost with rising temperature-an abrupt change occurs at a certain heat above which iron, nickel and cobalt cease in effect to be magnetic. This critical temperature chemists call the Curie point. These two discoveries underlie the operating principle of a new alloy announced last week in Instruments ("The Magazine of Measurement and Control...
Finding interviewers more disposed to talk of lifeboats than of books, he spun the yarn behind his whittled model. Invented 20 years ago by his Aunt Maggie's boy, Ivan Fleming, a British naval officer, the Fleming hand-propelled aluminum alloy lifeboat is now in use on 75 merchant ships, including the Nieuw Amsterdam, the Conte di Savoia, the Monarch of Bermuda, Queen of Bermuda, the Stockholm, but not on any U. S. liner...
...Although some hand-propelling method was ordered installed on all 60-passenger U. S. lifeboats except motor boats after the yeoman rescue work performed by the Monarch of Bermuda at the Morro Castle disaster in 1934, the Fleming boats until recently had not been approved because they have aluminum alloy non-sinkable bulkheads instead of steel. This year they were approved for installation on three liners being built for the Government-owned Panama Line...
...York, Dr. Robert W. Carter, research head of Taylor-Sloane Corp., which has been trying for ten years to perfect metal alloy photographic film, announced that it had succeeded, that the new film would be on sale within 90 days. According to Dr. Carter, Taylor-Sloane film is cheap, grainless, sensitive, non-inflammable, indestructible, non-shrinkable, capable of being used on both sides...
Images on ordinary transparent cellulose film are projected on a screen by a light behind the film. Images on non-transparent metal alloy film are projected by reflection from a light in front of the film. Major potentialities of metal alloy film outside the entertainment industry: mapmaking, microfilm reproductions of checks and documents, historical records for which cellulose film, which lasts only about 25 years, is unsatisfactory...