Word: carbone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times a minute. The blood pulsates through the arteries to tiny arterioles, whence it seeps into capillaries. From the capillaries the blood seeps into minute venules, then flows through the veins back to the heart. On the way the blood delivers oxygen to the body cells and picks up carbon dioxide and other waste products. The polluted venous blood which the heart receives it drives into the lungs. The lungs remove carbon dioxide from the blood, add fresh oxygen. Then the blood goes back to the heart for further circulation. Valves in the heart and veins prevent the blood stream...
...handed the paper to a newsman on Mexico City's Valbuena Airfield, 12 hr. 36 min. after leaving Ottawa. He gave himself up to a reception committee, spurned proffered tea and asked for three fingers of brandy, declared he was not very tired but "pretty well gassed" by carbon monoxide...
...Among the things he invented, wholly or partly, were: moving pictures, the phonograph, the carbon telephone transmitter, the microphone, the mimeograph, an alkaline storage battery, the incandescent light (his favorite...
...Carbon telephone transmitter...
Died. C. Harold Smith, 71, "Carbon King," one of the founders of Binney & Smith; of heart disease; in London. Two years ago he offered $1,000 for a plan to dispose of his $10,000,000 for the greatest good to humanity, received thousands of suggestions, gave the prize to a Columbia University psychology professor who had proposed a C. Harold Smith Institute of Mental Hygiene. But he never said whether he would carry out the plan. Born in London, he emigrated to New Zealand, fell in love with a Maori maiden, narrowly escaped torture and death at the hands...