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...ordinary tubes the gas pressure is of the order of a millionth of an atmosphere. The new tube has been exhausted to a billionth of atmospheric pressure, reducing noise between 100- and 1000-forl...
...United States." The above appears in TIME, May 6, contributed by A. H. Bennell, and has deprived me of breath for the moment. Mr. Bennell may be a good underwriter, but as an economist he is simply?well, he isn't. Life insurance agents have not added the 100 billionth part of one cent to the wealth of the U. S. What they have done is simply to gather up, at enormous expense, the tokens of wealth created by others, pile it up in a heap, dole out small portions of the total to their subscribers and let the surplus...
...most people can imagine. But last week, Dr. D. D. Knowles, 28-year old research engineer of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., demonstrated before unbelieving eyes in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan, a device that runs on one-fortieth of one fly-power?in electrical parlance: one-billionth of a watt...
...inch thin and three inches in diameter, supported against the 100-pound suction of the vacuum tube by skeleton struts of molybdenum. The molecular structure of nickel is such that molecules of air (oxygen, nitrogen) cannot pass through it, though it offers a minimum of resistance to those billionth parts of molecules, electrons...
...government bacteriologist in Guatemala. At present he is at Alexandria, Egypt, director of the bacteriological service of the Egyptian Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Council. †A millicron is one one-millionth of a millimeter, or one one-thousandth of a micron, or one twenty-fifth of a billionth of an inch. *This is the basis of the argument for Ipana tooth paste as advertised princeipally in Sunday papers and fiction-magazines...