Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wood touched to white-hot, molten steel, bursts into flame. Last week in Cleveland the molten metal poured on shingles made of sawdust failed to burn them. They were shingles belonging to Dr. Paul G. Von Hildebrandt, German-American chemist, with a formula for impregnating a sawdust composition against rain, wear, flame. He can, he says, make fireproof bricks, tiles, sheets, at far less than the present cost of cement and metal. Angling for capital, he promised that the ingredients for his process could all be obtained plentifully within U. S. borders; that he would turn mounds of sawdust into...
Credit for the perfection of "dry ice" belongs largely to Chemist Pierre E. Haynes, now with the Dry Ice Corp. of New York. General Carbonic and Liquid Carbonic are other corporations now making "safe dry," a form of "dry ice," which became a commercial product in 1925. To make solid carbon dioxide: invert a tank of liquid carbon dioxide under pressure, open the valve. The sudden lessening of the pressure causes the liquid as it squirts out to turn part cold solid, part...
...Cincinnati, tried some experiments on addicts in the local jail, patented his solution. In 1921 it was rejected by the council on pharmacy of the American Medical Association because it contained "unknown compositions." The chief of police of Cincinnati last week wrote to say that he did not think Chemist Horovitz had effected any permanent cures there. "We do not know that it is a remedy that can be reproduced by any reputable scientific laboratory," said Dr. Rudolph Matas of New Orleans, thereby laying his tongue on the kernel of the profession's skepticism, for Chemist Horovitz has steadily...
...young chemist, the M. I. T. professor, the disturbing president, or the anxious, struggling administrator, the present generation knows but little. These phases of his life will be of tremendous, importance to his biographer, but it is rather his later years that will live in the realms of Harvard legends. It is the white-haired man with his full, straight lips, and the direct expression in his eyes, the eloquent sage, the national oracle, who concerns the undergraduate to come. The forces that made him this were perhaps the same that aided him throughout his whole career...
...that he had deciphered the crabbed symbols in which Roger Bacon, fearing for his life in the superstitious 13th Century, noted down his scientific experiments. Last week, at a meeting held in Dr. Newbold's memory, University of Pennsylvania professors verified their dead colleague's translations. A chemist in their number, Dr. Hiram S. Lukens, had taken to his laboratory a quaint recipe by which Friar Bacon had said he obtained salts of copper. Dr. Lukens had never seen such a formula before, but it worked. In announcing his success, Dr. Lukens made a grave omission, failing...