Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leeds, England, 100 years ago, that Joseph Aspdin discovered that a new building material could be produced by mixing pulverized lime and clay in correct proportions and driving out the carbonic acid gas with heat. Aspdin was not a chemist or scientist; and his momentous discovery was made by accidental experimentation. Up until 1872, there was not a Portland cement plant in this country. Today the U. S. industry represents a capital investment of over $300,000,000, employs from 25,000 to 40,000 men, produces annually 25,000,000 tons of cement...
...MIRACLE-Religion put up in wholesale lots by the master chemist of stage spectacle, Max Reinhardt...
Among the renowned were: Sir Robert Robertson, chief Government chemist of Great Britain; Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell; Sir Max Muspratt, onetime Lord Mayor of Liverpool, foremost British indus- trial engineer; Dr. J. S. McHargue, head of the Kentucky Agricultural Station; T. A. Boyd of the General Motors Corporation; Professor H. Steenbock, chemical research head of the University of Wisconsin; Professor E. C. C. Baly, famed savant of the University of Liverpool. In the chair was Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, President of the Society, a man who invents. He has discovered processes for the separation of copper and cadmium...
...last a French chemist, Fourneau, and his associates have produced a substance which they think is identical with...
...when all artists may be able to obtain certified paints the quality of which has been passed on by a commission; ... if the canvases, pigments and varnishes bought by artists are not good, their pictures will not last. It is too much to expect every artist to be a chemist who can test his own pigments. ... So far as our resources have permitted we have undertaken the pioneering work in this direction...