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Word: electroal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great step came when Newton (1642-1727) gave Space a definite physical reality in his theories of force accelerating bodies, the movement being measurable in reference to a really rigid body. The introduction of "ether" by Faraday (1791-1867) and Maxwell (1831-79) to explain their electro-magnetic field theories was the last great step before Einstein's relativity theories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solid Space? | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...case he selected an imaginary charged sphere to apply his formulae to, in the second a number of isolated charged points in space. Both conditions are actually represented in the universe. From the first the relationship between gravity and electricity on Earth may be determined, from the second the electro-gravitational relation of Earth to the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electricity-Gravity | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Technicolor is the trade name of a process invented by Dr. Herbert Thomas Kalmus, onetime (1913-15) professor of electro-chemistry and metallurgy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now president of a $35,000,000 corporation. Dr. Kalmus built his first camera ten years ago. It took 15 months to build and cost $120,000. Technicolor cameras are cheaper now, but there are not many of them available ; a year ago there were only eight in the world. Technicolor, Inc. owns exclusive rights to its process - not the best process yet discovered for taking pictures in color, but the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Grauman's Chinese | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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