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Last week the day came for Mr. Chrysler's hearing and Mr. Chrysler was in Detroit. Anxiously his attorney informed the court that Mr. Chrysler had wired his willingness to appear in person next day if necessary. Angrily Judge W. Calvin Chesnut snapped that Mr. Chrysler had best consider that it was necessary. Chief Gabrielson: "All citizens are equal under the Law." Next day a nervous Mr. Chrysler faced a scowling judge and in barely audible tones confessed to the unplugged gun charge. "Of course I should have known," said he, "but Pritchett is supposed to look...
Sharply warning Mr. Chrysler to make his employes "keep within the law," Judge Chesnut dismissed the baiting charge, fined motorman & employe $10 each for not plugging their guns, $1 each for not pasting on their stamps...
Motorman Chrysler was not the only distinguished defendant arraigned before Judge Chesnut last week. Among others, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the U. S. Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, was fined $5 for unplugged gun, $1 for unpasted stamp. Enroute from Texas, Albanus Phillips, big, bluff Cambridge Md. soupmaker whose 6,700-acre estate adjoins his good friend Mr. Chrysler's, was expected in court this week to answer a charge of baited shooting...
Electric furnaces are built on the principle that when electrical energy meets resistance it is converted into heat energy. Well known is the Ajax Northrup high frequency furnace which increases the heat energy by creating a current in the material to be melted. Using this principle, Engineer Chesnut made an experimental furnace of 1 cu. ft. capacity. The crucible was lathed out of a solid block of graphite, a form of carbon which conducts electricity well. To set up the resistance he packed the crucible in lampblack-an obstinate conductor of electricity. The current was carried through a copper coil...
...current was turned on the graphite interior of the crucible quickly grew white hot. Through one of two small tubes in the cover of the furnace Engineer Chesnut, wearing dark glasses, could peer, and so good was the insulation that he could put his eye within a few inches of the tube. Keeping the temperature at 3,000°-600° below the vaporization point of graphite-Engineer Chesnut could drop objects through the tube, watch what happened in the hellish interior. Wood was instantly reduced to vapor, burning as a sudden jet of gas. Rocks quickly became vaporized, silicon...