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...JOAN OF ARC-Joseph Delteil-Minton, Balch ($2.50). A modern view of the ageless Maid...
...Hotter than any flame is the electric arc already adapted to girder-welding (TIME...
...Arc Welding. Hotel-managers and their patrons, apartment-dwellers and other city folk, gave thanks for a report by the U. S. Bureau of Standards that arc-welded girder joints can be substituted for pneumatically riveted joints, being as strong, often stronger. The significance: no more cannonading clatter on skyscraper frames outside the sleepy urbanite's window; arc welding, where girder steel is melted into a joint by powerful electric current, is silent...
...Mass., to the manufacturing of electrical equipment, electricity was in little practical use. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) had shown in 1844 that it could be used for telegraphy. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) applied it to telephony. Charles Francis Brush (1849-) invented the Brush electric arc light in 1878. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-) shortly was to develop a clanking generator and the incandescent lamp, and Elihu Thomson (1853-) his 500 and more industrial applications...
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