Word: blodgett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale A. Harkan Elinore Glazier, Belmont Daniel D. Barker Celia Hubbard, Cambridge Thomas P. Barneleld Naney Kenyon, Pawtucket Robert Barnet Elizabeth Pratt, Wellesley Hills J. Malsolan Harter Helon Lewis, Beverly Philip C. Beals Dinny Chaffee, Belmont Robert C. Benchley Jr. Doris-Ann Graham, Englewood, N. J. Rodney Hoynton Polly Blodgett, Boston Leon H. Brachman Marcia Wilson, Dorchester Charles Breunig Mary Lewis, Indianapolis Jack E. Bronston Georgia Clark, Rochester, N. H. Walter D. Brooks Anne Keith, Campello Robert P. Brundage Harriet Leatherbee, West Newton Joseph P. Burke Ann Corcoren, Cambridge Henry D. Burnham Elvine Richard, Hewlit, Long Island Chadwick R. Byer...
Figure skaters compete in three classes (novice, junior and senior) according to their ability. At the national championships last week only five women, all under 21, were expert enough to compete for the women's senior title: Boston's Joan Tozzer and Polly Blodgett, Manhattan's Charlotte Walther and Audrey Peppe and Philadelphia's Jane Vaughn...
Pure science gave way to practical technology when one of Dr. Langmuir's coworkers, Dr. Katharine Burr Blodgett, found that a layer of transparent liquid soap, with a thickness of one-quarter the average wavelength of white light (about 4/1,000,000 in.), made the glass to all intents and purposes invisible. Reason: glass is visible because of the light reflected from its surface; with a soap film there are two reflections, one from the glass and one from the soap; by spacing the two surfaces properly it is possible to get the "crest" of a light wave bouncing...
Some stores and showrooms have "invisible glass" windows, but these are parabolic panes such that reflections are bent downward and absorbed in a baffle of black cloth. Glass such as Katharine Blodgett's, which actually obliterates reflection at its surface, could be used as an invisible protection for paintings in galleries and museums. Other possible uses: automobile windshields, shop windows, show cases, cameras, spectacles, telescopes, field glasses...
Only a day after Katharine Blodgett announced her discovery last week, Drs. C. Hawley Cartwright and Arthur Francis Turner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported at a physics meeting in Washington that they had also produced invisible glass, using a similar principle. Their reflection-absorbing varnish, however, is deposited on the glass by condensing the vapor of metallic fluorides...