Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remarkable brick rewarded the country's important chemical societies for giving the coveted Perkin Medal to Dr. Charles Frederick Burgess at a Manhattan ceremony last week. The medal is for "the American chemist who has most distinguished himself by his services to applied chemistry." In Dr. Burgess' case that refers to his showing factory managers that it pays to hire scholars. Twenty and more years ago he was professor of applied electro-chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Manufacturers hesitated to use his novel ideas concerning the electrolytic purification of iron, dry batteries, corrosion...
...return for the Perkin Medal, Professor Burgess showed chemistry & industry his remarkable new brick. Fearing that its properties were incredible, he tossed one into a pot of water, cried: "Notice that it floats. If I should leave it here for a year it would still be floating. In other words we have a brick which is light, one-fifth the weight of an ordinary brick, of high heat-insulating quality, porous, yet resistant to the entrance of water, and of a crushing strength sufficient to support its weight if built into a tower five times the height...
Later in the week Dr. John Bentley Squier, Manhattan urinary surgeon, gave a dinner in honor of Dr. Burgess, Sir Charles Gordon-Watson of London, Dr. Hans von Haberer of Cologne (all three were made honorary fellows of the College) and the officers of the College. It was a happy evening for Dr. Squier. That afternoon the College had elected him its next president. He is just about as much smaller in height and build than President Kanavel, as President Kanavel is smaller than retired President Miller...
Concurrently a fifth thing soon important to him was happening. Congress had created a Bureau. of Standards in Washington. President McKinley in 1901 took Professor Samuel Wesley Stratton from the University of Chicago to be the bureau's first director. A couple of years later he had Dr. Burgess with him. When Professor Stratton became president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1923), Dr. Burgess became Bureau Chief. Just a month ago President Stratton, for a year now Tech's board chairman, was back in Washington, guest of his onetime subordinate at the bureau's 30th anniversary celebration...
...first laboratory was so rickety that passing wagons made the measuring instruments rattle. Now Dr. Burgess has structures so solidly poised that an earth quake could not joggle a butterfly on a pendulum. He also has instruments sensitive enough to detect the streetcleaners' brushing a block away...