Word: electroal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on modern chemistry. It dissolves most metals (iron and platinum are among the few exceptions). Besides its familiar uses- gold and silver amalgams to fill teeth; filling for thermometers and ultraviolet ray lamps-it goes into explosives and drugs. Recently it has been used to run electro-turbines at Hartford and Schenectady (TIME, July 8, 1929). The world annually produces about 150,000 "flasks"* of mercury, gets almost all from Spain and Italy, yet appreciable quantities come from the U. S. (California, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Arizona), Mexico, Japan...
...Chemistry's brightest. Dr. Rice, who also studied at Caltech, is prodigious in his application of physical theories to chemical problems. His special work has been interpreting reactions between gases by means of quantum mechanics. He has also used modern theories of statistics to describe metals and electro-capillarity. The past year his researches have been devoted to finding out what happens to the energy contained in molecules of gases when the molecules break up. His present program is to determine the process by which molecular energy is transferred back & forth between molecules in a heated...
...excepting Norman Bel-Geddes, a genius whose accent usually obscures the individuality of the playwrights he stages, Robert Edmond ("Bobby") Jones is the ablest designer of the U. S. theatre. Audiences will long recall his skillful settings for The Green Pastures, Mourning Becomes Electro, The Emperor Jones and a hundred other plays, without having been distracted from the quality of the plays themselves. Robert Edmond Jones, at 28, made a sensation with sets and costumes he designed for Granville Barker's pro duction of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. Later he became associated with Arthur Hopkins...
Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 73, Columbia electro-mechanist, the John Fritz Medal; for his accomplishments in electromagnetism, particularly long distance telephony...
...this being true, Dr. Thomson proposes: "To organize an electro-magnetic 'hummer' which, at small expense of energy, can spread over a large space the peculiar hum, and attract the males; perhaps also repelling the females. Various ways of trapping the males may be suggested, as they need not be desiccated or cooked to get rid of them...