Word: foundryman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patents for $25,000 but preferred to gamble on their validity. The process was originally suggested at the Lawrence Experimental Station in Massachusetts in 1890. Further experiments were carried on in Manchester, England. About 1914 patents on the process were taken out in England and elsewhere by a British foundryman named Walter Jones. He formed Activated Sludge, Ltd., died in 1922. An American named Edgar C. Guthard, the U. S. licensee, and Activated Sludge, Ltd. sued Chicago's Sanitary District in 1924 for patent infringements. In 1927 Guthard formed Activated Sludge, Inc. and it joined...
...Woodin's father had a foundry at Berwick, Pa. where he was born. As a college graduate the son was put into this shop, cleaning castings at 90? per day. It was hateful work for an esthete like young Will Woodin. Once he became an expert foundryman, he fled to Europe to study music. Recalled by his father, he entered...