Word: burnham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started when one night last winter Mrs. Philip Burnham of Wilmington, Del. could not go to the Red Cross to fold bandages. Mr. Burnham went instead. Delaware bandage-folding has not been the same since...
...Burnham is an architect-engineer for Du Pont. He was bored stiff by the hand work of reducing 16-inch squares of gauze to four-inch sponges-at four minutes to a sponge. He went home and said so. Then in self-defense he invented a semi-automatic bandage folder that would do the job in one minute. The device was made of wallboard, hinged with cloth tape, and was worth about 30?. Later, saturated fiber sheet and waterproof adhesive tape were used. Mr. Burnham gave the Delaware Red Cross full patent rights...
Last week Du Pont announced that two models of Mr. Burnham's folder, to fold three sizes of bandage, are now in mass production. With high industrial grandeur, the bulletin added that Lammot du Pont, chairman of the Board of Directors, applied the inventor's basic principle and developed a working model that has been adopted as standard by the Delaware Red Cross for folding the smallest size dressing...
...Hall Slavic 30 Emerson D Sociology 1 Emerson D 2:15 P.M. Philosophy A Emerson D, 211 THURSDAY, JANUARY 21 (XVI) 9.15 A.M. Economics 121a Emerson 211 English A Dr. Baker, Sec. 14, 25 Memorial Hall Mr. Benzanson, Sec. 28, 35 Memorial Hall Mr. Berryman, Sec. 9, 11 Mr. Burnham, Sec. 21, 23, 29 Memorial Hall Mr. Davis, Sec. 13 Memorial Hall Mr. Eliman, Sec. 26, 32 Memorial Hall Mr. Harrison, Sec. 13, 16 Memorial Hall Mr. Lee, Sec. 20, 37 New Lect. Hall Mr. Leisher, Sec. 36, 38 New Lect. Hall Mr. McCreary, Sec. 5, 10 New Lect. Hall...
...complete collapse of heavily favored Dartmouth was the biggest surprise of the meet. Having virtually the same team which last year swept the heptagonal competition and took all three first places the Big Green was supposed to walk off easily with the team trophy and Don Burnham was touted as the one man who could stop Schwartzkopf. However, the defending champion could do not better than eighth and the team finished in fifth place. Captain Bob Williams the I. C. 4-A indoor 100-yard champion was even a greater disappointment than Burnham and ended up 29th...