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...inquisitive boy." At Schenectady, G.E. gave his inquisitive nature free rein: he was told not to bother with practical applications, but to look around the laboratory and work on any problem which interested him. On one project he worked for three years, introducing various gases into an incandescent lamp bulb just to see what would happen. In 1912 he made his first important discovery: an electric bulb filled with nitrogen was more efficient than the so-called "vacuum" bulb, since the gas retards evaporation of the tungsten filament. It displaced the old vacuum bulb, saved users of electricity a billion...
...flicked photometer, developed from a standard device long used by eye doctors, is built around a six-volt bulb set in a revolving cylinder. In one side of the cylinder a window is cut to show a flashing light like a miniature lighthouse. The patient looks at the light through opalescent glass. If his retina and brain are getting a normal supply of blood and oxygen, the normal subject should see the flicker effect when the cylinder revolves as fast as 45 times a second. But if the eye's arteries are narrowed, the oxygen-starved retina loses sensitivity...
...between glass and putty . . . Buy diamonds with cash from Cartier's-when I want to sell a hot one show the receipt . . . Dogs love the smell and taste of cinnamon . . . Scotch Tape stuck on a pane of frosted glass enables one to see through, but not out . . . use bulb in toilet bowl to hide diamonds . . . Leave phony overcoat button at scene...
...this form of the disease, rarer but far deadlier than spinal polio, the virus attacks the bulb or brain stem. The iron lung often will not work on bulbar polio because the patient's breathing is jerky. with an irregular rhythm; his intake and release of air cannot be synchronized with the iron lung's regular beat. But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff's theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged...
...leading Greek war correspondents, was particularly interested in the problem of food. In one of his reports, discussed by Dr. Pan S. Codellas of the University of California Medical School in the Bulletin of the History, of Medicine, Philo describes the preparation of the Greek Ks: "Take squill [a bulb root, shaped like an onion], which, after having been boiled down, is ... cut into the thinnest possible pieces. Afterwards it is mixed with one-fifth of sesame and one-fifteenth of opium poppy. When all of these have been pounded together in a mortar to a fine mass, knead...