Word: baekeland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farnsworth Television. Inc. related how he discovered the basic principle of television when he was only 14. Dr. William David Coolidge, director of General Electric Co.'s Schenectady research laboratory, sounded off on G. E.'s recent discovery of "invisible" glass (TIME, Jan. 9). Vice-President George Baekeland of Bakelite Corp. got valuable publicity with his announcement that airplane production could be speeded up by making certain structural parts of plastics...
...from the hulk of an old British frigate at the bottom of New York's East River; Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, RCA-Victor television ace; William David Coolidge, General Electric's No. 1 x-ray researcher; Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion radio tube; and Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite...
...conference itself was conspicuous for its lack of New Deal animosity. A good many sessions were devoted to familiar Chemurgician products like soy beans, tung oil (for paint), Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations...
Flexible Resin. Since Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite from carbolic acid & formaldehyde and demonstrated how useful and profitable such artificial resins may be, a new division of plastics has developed in chemistry. New product is "glyptal," a flexible material which /. G. E. Wright declared is better than rubber or leather for printing machine rollers. It can be used for lithographic rolls and blankets, oil-proof gaskets, floor coverings, special sheetings for the balloonets of dirigibles, gasoline and oil hose, motor-mountings, tooth brushes...
...linked together in our thinking. ... In that marriage, I suggest that Phi Beta Kappa as the older society be given the rights of the male; that is, the giving of the name to the family." Famed Tau Beta Pi members include: Robert Andrews Millikan,* Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Leo Hendrick Baekeland (bakelite),* President Harold Sherburne Boardman of University of Maine, the late George Washington Goethals (builder of Panama Canal),* the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz,* John Hays Hammond,† Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's engineering college,* the late Elmer Ambrose Sperry.† Architect Irving Kane Pond, Bridge Builder Ralph...