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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...
...Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets" by Samuel Johnson. A volume on worms, entitled, "A General System of Nature: IV--Worms", by Sir Charles Linne, once belonged to James Monroe. Madison owned a book on antiques, "The Antiquarian Repertory", which is part of the collection. The presidents Jefferson, Garfield, Taft and Harrison all were represented by long books on government, the first named owning a book entitled, "Proceedings of the Government of the United States in Maintaining Public Rights to the Beach of the Mississippi against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston...
Basis for this tirade: Virginia has given 8 presidents, Ohio 7: the former Washington. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. Wm. Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, and Wilson: the latter Grant. Hayes, Garfield, Ben. Harrison, McKiniey, Taft and Harding...
...Hiland Garfield Batcheller became president of Ludlum Steel Co. Steelman Batcheller left the sales department of Carnegie Steel in 1916 to become assistant to the president of Ludlum, was elected a vice president three years later. To all steelmen he is famed for his contributions to the development of alloy steels in the U. S. He has long been interested in the Krupp steel works of Germany, arranged for Ludlum to share in the U. S. production of two Krupp metals: nitralloy, a wear-resistant steel used chiefly in the automotive and airplane industries, and Strauss Metal, used for cutting...
Julius Fleischmann; Edgar Allan Poe; Lawrence Mervil Tibbett ;Lammot du Pont ;Peter Bernard Kyne; James Jeremiah Wadsworth ;Alexander J. Cassatt; Malcom W. Greenough; Paul Hyde Bonner ;James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney ;William E. Boeing ;John N. Garfield ;Philip Richard Mather; Edward Aloysius Cudahy; Lester Armour; William H. Mitchell; Sturtevant Erdmann; Pierrepont D. Schreiber...