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Word: celling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike many scientific developments, this invention by an M.I.T. chemist is more than an advance into the hinterlands of already explored territory-it is a landing on a strange and alien coast. The light-transforming action of this cell can be roughly compared to the synthesis of food within green plants, a process which scientists have not been able to duplicate, even crudely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perpetual Power? | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...this current Rabinowitch arranged a simple device. "If now two metal electrodes are immersed in such a solution," he explained last week, "and if the liquid around one electrode is illuminated and the other is kept dark, the system becomes a galvanic cell in which chemical energy, formed by the conversion of light, is itself immediately converted into electrical energy." Galvanic cells and batteries-usually making current from the slow dissolving of zinc in sulfuric acid-are not uncommon, but Rabinowitch's is unique in that it will never wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perpetual Power? | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...mighty she would be ruined by international finance. In March 1918, he gathered 40 Germans into a Munich beer hall, formed the Committee of Independent Workmen. The next year they called themselves the German Workers' Party and Adolf Hitler was admitted as the seventh member of the inner cell. In 1920 the organization's name was again changed to the National Socialist German Workers' Party and Hitler began muscling Drexler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of a Cynic | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...R.A.F. student pilot who had the reputation of being a brave, hard working and intelligent candidate for the Air Force, of being kind to his wife and child. The magistrate postponed the hearing until next month to let things quiet down, and handsome Frederick Cummings went to a cell. Once more, in the gloom around Piccadilly Circus, the streetwalkers took up their patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In the Blackout | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...station's soil-mechanics laboratory, which was added in 1931 to study river silts and the shape, seepage and settling of levees and earthen dams. Soil engineers and chemists now study design of military airports, use of cemented soils for runways (TIME, Nov. 17). And a cell first designed to measure pressures within earthen dams is now used by the Army to record effects of explosions on experimental air-raid shelters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rivers Remodeled | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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