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...Britain's B.E.A.M.A. (British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association) Journal, Engineer F. T. Bacon of Cambridge describes the most hopeful approach so far to a practical fuel cell. Bacon uses two diaphragms of porous nickel set close together with an electrolyte (a solution of potassium hydroxide) between them. Hydrogen gas at the pressure of 800 Ibs. per sq. in. seeps through one diaphragm, oxygen through the other. They combine in the electrolyte, and the energy of their "burning" appears as electricity, not as heat...
...leading art collectors, who in 1950 presented his 1,000-piece, $2,000,000 collection of 20th century and pre-Columbian art to the Philadelphia Museum of Art; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A firm believer that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Francis Bacon, Arensberg wrote numerous books on the subject, founded the Francis Bacon Foundation to carry on research...
...difficulty that Murdock faced, with two such excellent designers and managers, was that of finances. Robert Bacon '80, a partner in J. P. Morgan, had verbally promised Lane $50,000, but when he died in France during the First World War he left no will. His estate did not recognize the bequest and by 1920, funds were running low. The policy of printing beautiful editions of books with limited sales appeal meant that the Press was laden with equal parts honor and deficit. As is the case with all university printing plants, the Printing Office was self-supporting, and even...
...Jerome, just a year after Caxton printed his first book in 1477. By the time William (later Archbishop) Laud took over the chancellorship of Oxford in 1629, it was printing such titles as Captain John Smith's Map of Virginia, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Bacon's Advancement of Learning...
...from Bacon's point of view. "The most encouraging fact brought out by the survey is that the overwhelming majority of college students who drink do so twice a month or less...