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Word: electro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system of putting through a dial telephone call is as follows: For each of the first three letters of the called exchange name, and for the four figures of the number and the letter of the party line, the caller turns the dial. Each dial turn actuates a delicate electro-magnet at the automatic exchange. If the call is to another dial call, the automatic exchange mechanically connects the call with the proper exchange, number and party, rings insistently. If the dial call is to a manual telephone, the automatic exchange mechanically registers the called number on the big board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Talking Phone Dials | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Fokker and with pilot and mechanic was on her 10,000-mile way from Folkestone, Eng., to Karachi, India. Last year she attempted the same trip in the same plane, but was forced down at Bushire on the Persian Gulf. Flying is the Duchess' avocation. Professionally she is an electro-physicist of repute, and once loved to chase eagles among mountain crags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Mendeleff, periodic system of the elements; Davy, miner's lamp; Perkin, mauve synthetic coal tar dyes; Faraday, electro magnetic induction; Curie, Radium; Priestley, oxygen; Gay-Lussac, law of combining volumes of gases; Dalton, atomic theory; Solvay, soda from ammonia; Ramsay, the Noble gases; Lavoisier, originator of modern chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Electro-chemistry-Faraday's Laws", Professor Black, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...Electro-chemistry-Faraday's Laws", Professor Black, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

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