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...last week Sir Bernard, 70, ill with coronary thrombosis and arthritis, locked himself into his little laboratory in University College, London. He tore up some documents and opened the petcock of a single Bunsen burner. It was enough for his final experiment. At week's end in St. Pancras court, where Sir Bernard had often given expert medical testimony, Coroner W. Bentley Purchase returned "with reluctance" a verdict of suicide...
After three years he switched to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He finished the grueling four-year course in two years. While at Tech he helped design one of the first airplane wind tunnels in the U.S.-and wind tunnels are to airplane research what the Bunsen burner was to chemistry. On the strength of this he got a job with the up-&-coming Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Co. By the time he was 28 he was 1) a vice president and chief engineer, and 2) unhappy. He wanted to make his own planes...
...Science students had to make their own equipment: e.g., "laboratories" in the Bronx High School of Science had no gas lines, no running water. To operate a Bunsen burner, pupils inflated a football bladder with gas, took it to a laboratory, attached it to a burner, got a flame lasting two minutes...
President Conant lost no time this year in asking the University to call on him a Sunday afternoons at 17 Quincy Street; where he will probably brew tea in Pyrex beakers over a silver Bunsen burner. But the convivial graduate students who look forward to these wholesome meals have not as yet found the little invitations in the Crimson. This is not because President Conant has not tea in his pantry yet, but because he does not live at 17 Quincy Street. President Conant "will be glad to see all men who are students in the University," when the Cambridge...
...look interesting," he told a young woman who was bending over a retort, heating it gently with a darting Bunsen flame. "Just keep that pose and I'll snap...