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Word: elway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That," said Dr. Edward Elway Free, chemist, physicist, consultant, lecturer, "is just a few young weevils trying to eat their way out of these wheat kernels here. Perhaps we can quiet them a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Uproarious Weevils | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...radiates heat-like infra-red rays. A two-foot, concave, silvered glass mirror in the fog-eye collects infra-red radiations of objects, focuses the rays on a sensitive thermocouple which translates the infra red rays into faint currents of electricity. A compact amplifier which Physicist Edward Elway Free built for Commander Macneil, builds up the fog-eye's currents until they are strong enough to turn on warning lights, ring a gong. The fog-eye can detect differences of temperature of one-fifty-thousandth of a degree Centigrade. Its theoretical effec- tiveness is the heat of a candle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fog-Eye | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

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