Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burnham is an architect-engineer for Du Pont. He was bored stiff by the hand work of reducing 16-inch squares of gauze to four-inch sponges-at four minutes to a sponge. He went home and said so. Then in self-defense he invented a semi-automatic bandage folder that would do the job in one minute. The device was made of wallboard, hinged with cloth tape, and was worth about 30?. Later, saturated fiber sheet and waterproof adhesive tape were used. Mr. Burnham gave the Delaware Red Cross full patent rights...
...world he despised. "The 'filthy rich' drove behind high-stepping horses drawing ornate equipages from which tall-hatted coachmen and footmen surveyed their surroundings with a truly devastating scorn." For three years Harold Ickes glared at "the intangible ingredients out of which a careful architect was to build a robust curmudgeonly character." He learned to mix Seidlitz powders in such a way that a glassful would explode "into the nostrils and the eyes" of a customer he disliked...
Buildings that look like barns-which many people consider very beautiful-have made the reputation of Pietro Bel-luschi, architect of Portland, Ore. This week for the first time he plans to hang out his own shingle. He will hang it on the same Jefferson Street house (under Portland's Vista ''Suicide" Bridge), long occupied by the defunct firm of which he had been a member (A. E. Doyle & Associate...
...Pietro Belluschi was born in Ancona, Italy in 1899, served as an officer in the Italian Army in World War I. After getting an architectural degree in Rome in 1922, Belluschi came to the U.S. to study engineering at Cornell. He was hired in 1925 by Portland's architect A. E. Doyle. Two years later he was head designer for the firm. Says he: "Barns lack pompousness. To say my houses look like barns is flattering...
Above all, he considered himself a scientist, which he was. In an era when "test pilot" was often a synonym for "daredevil," he persuaded manufacturers that the test pilot should be consulted before the plane was built. "You would not call in an architect after you had built a house," he said...