Word: ductless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ductless hood for the stove, just introduced by Puritron, uses electronics to cope with the smoke and grease that all too rapidly foul the usual hood's charcoal filter. A tiny ion tube of gold alloy releases a stream of negative ions when the hood is turned on, promptly attacking the positive ions in the air, around which the molecules of smoke and cooking odor gather. This precipitates the molecules on an easily washed aluminum filter-releasing fresh, clean air again. In three sizes and colors...
Born in 1688, the son of a bishop in Sweden's state church, Swedenborg was a kind of Nordic Da Vinci. He invented a machine gun and a fire extinguisher, first explained to the world the phenomenon of phosphorescence and the function of the ductless glands, devised a nebular hypothesis to account for the origin of the universe. Metallurgist, physiologist and mathematician, he knew nine languages, and promoted fiscal reforms and liquor regulations as a member of Sweden's Diet...