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Scientists have searched for a means of turning heat directly into electric current since a series of experiments in the 1880s showed that a heated metal plate will "boil off" clouds of electrons. Reason: an electric current is simply a flow of electrons. Last week, before the 124th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, General Electric announced that it had turned the trick. The device that may change the world's means of making power: a small "thermionic converter" that now turns about 9% of its heat energy into electricity, may eventually convert...
...disclose neither the vapor nor the method of treating the plates.) The plate with the higher potential is heated to about 1,500° centigrade, the other to around 1,000° centigrade. The first plate is hot enough to release electrons; the second is not. Clouds of electrons boil off the hotter plate (the cathode) and are attracted to the cooler plate (the anode), thereby producing a current of electricity strong enough to light a small bulb. In effect, the device is a simple battery, energized by heat...
...girl, a progressive schoolteacher who starts the whole town talking with her sex talks to second graders; a real-estate shyster who turns swampland into pay dirt by renaming it "Powderhorn Hill"; a toothsome teen-age tidbit named Comfort Goodpasture whose Puritan blood is brought to a boil by a guitar-strumming Army corporal from Altus, Okla...
...Middletown, Pennsylvania, man. I was eating my evening meal last night when who should be on the radio but Bill Stern. After hearing him talk about Harvard and Johnny Yovicsin, I was amazed. I was speechless for a while. Then my blood began to boil...
...that. He condemned Harvard for getting beaten by Yale. He condemned the Harvard School. He said something about tearing down the football field. I didn't quite understand what he meant by that. He condemned Johnny Yovicsin as a coach. An unknown. That's when my blood began to boil...