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Then in 1914 Fritz Haber, clever German necromancer, found that nitrogen gas can be captured in another way-by combining it with hydrogen to form ammonia. Instead of electricity, the Haber process makes use of an agent called a "catalyst," which is a substance that by its mere presence causes the union of two other elements. Efficient catalysts, or as Dr. E. E. Slosson calls them, the "good mixers" of chemical society, are expensive. Haber used uranium, platinum or some other rare and finely divided metal. When the nitrogen and hydrogen, after being elaborately purified, mixed in proper proportions, compressed...
...John Fritz Medal. The John Fritz Gold Medal, one of the highest engineering honors in America, has been awarded for 1924 to Ambrose Swasey, of Cleveland. Mr. Swasey, born in New Hampshire in 1846, is now Vice Chairman of the Warner & Swasey Co., pioneer manufacturers of astronomical and optical apparatus, fine machine tools, precision instruments, military and naval rangefinders. Under his direction were built the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim...
...John Fritz Medal was established in 1902 in honor of John Fritz, of Pittsburgh, pioneer iron and steel manufacturer, and is awarded annually for notable scientific or industrial achievement. Previous Fritz medallists include Bell, Marconi, General Goethals, Sir Robert Had-field (famed British engineer-capitalist) and Eugene Schneider (head of the great Creusot steel works of France...
Sunday afternoon in the Opera House a recital by Fritz Kreisler surpassed by no living violinist...
...more Phi Beta Kappa keys present than in Congress. Many study law on the side. Others are preparing themselves for active politics. So far women have been exclu'ded. Such men as Senator William J. Harris of Georgia, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, Representatives Charles R. Crisp of Georgia, Fritz G. Lanham of Texas, Addison T. Smith of Idaho, Wallace H. White of Maine, have risen from their ranks. The "Little Congress" is not so little...