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Professor Colin Garfield Fink of Columbia, who invented the drawn tungsten filament for electric light bulbs and developed the first commercial process of plating automobile hardware with chromium, last week announced that he was successfully electroplating objects with tungsten...
Electroplating is the only practical way of putting on tungsten coats. But the electroplater needs a stable solution of a tungsten salt in water. Most tungsten compounds decompose in water or else are altogether insoluble. Professor Fink's accomplishment was to prevent the tungsten atom of his sodium tungstate molecule from going into another tungsten compound. The tungsten atom, thus kept free from changing relations, could be driven by an electric current and deposited on pieces of brass, copper, zinc, iron or carbon...
...steel plant was recently completed by Great Lakes Steel Corp., subsidiary of National Steel Corp. Also in Ecorse, Michigan Steel Corp. has been improving its plant for the past three years, increased its capacity 30% this year alone. President of Michigan Steel is George R. Fink who formed it in 1922, making it the first steel company to have its manufacturing plant in the Detroit area. President of National Steel is also George R. Fink. Therefore no surprise to steelmen was the announcement last week that National will acquire Michigan...
...National and Michigan Steel have been growing, President Fink has been rising on the steel horizon. He is 45, went to no college. After working in various steel companies, he was assigned the Detroit territory as a sheet salesman for West Penn Steel Co., was later made general sales manager. He suggested a mill in the Detroit area, could not sell the idea to his company. Big Detroiters backed him after he got enough contracts from automobile makers to keep the proposed company busy. This was, of course, Michigan Steel. Last year when he formed Great Lakes Steel he sold...
Prof. Colin Garfield Fink (Columbia University, Electrochemistry) announced last week that he would treat the declining stones?cleansing them to remove bacteria, giving an alkaline bath to immunize them from free salts and acids in the air, filling pores and chinks with melted paraffin and beeswax. This operation will hereafter be needed every few years...