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...result was a "premium" in rayon. The "official" price had risen steadily: from 55? a Ib. for 150-denier viscose filament in August 1946, to 67? last week. But the premium market price was around twice that...
...calls its lamp a "concentrated arc." Inside a small glass bulb filled with argon gas are two electrodes. On one is a tiny speck of zirconium oxide. When the current flows, this turns to molten zirconium metal, glows ten times as brightly for its area as the brightest tungsten filament...
Between the poles of the magnet is a doughnut-shaped glass vacuum tube, 74 inches across. A heated filament sprays electrons (particles of negative electricity) into the tube. The intense electric field stirred up by the magnetism between the poles makes the electrons whirl round & round the tube in a circular orbit. In 1 240th of a second they make 250,000 complete circuits. The enormous velocity of all this whirling, measured in electrical terms, is equivalent to 100 million volts...
...year 1675 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water, which had stood but few days in a new earthen pot. . . . When these animalcula or living atoms moved, they put forth two little horns, continually moving. . . . These little creatures, if they chanced to light on the least filament or string, or other particles, were entangled therein, extending their body in a long round and endeavoring to disentangle their tail. . . . I have seen several thousands of these poor little creatures, within the space of a grain of gross sand, lie fast clustered together in a few filaments...
...shatterproof light bulb, with a strong filament and lacquer coating, that could be banged on a table without breaking...