Word: gelatine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Peter Cooper ran for President, on the Greenback ticket, he got 82,000 votes. But he was one of the most wonderful grandfathers who ever lived. His prosperous glue (and gelatin) factory, at Madison Avenue and sist Street in Manhattan, would have made him a fortune even if he had not invented the mercury vapor lamp, built the first American steam locomotive, or helped finance the Atlantic cable. His long white hair reached almost to his shoulders. He shaved himself with a razor used by George Washington. He wore a black frock coat, a black stock about his neck...
...could get it)-that the casting would not take fifteen days (if he could get the lead out of the pants of the zombie who did the work)-that the only paper available would be usable if not ideal-that we would somehow manage to get him enough gelatin for the press roll ers-and that we would not complain too bitterly if his inferior ink smudged some of the illustrations...
...Likes mashed potatoes, dislikes Army fried potatoes (35% uneaten). > Likes fruit and gelatin desserts better than...
...Removal of salts in the manufacture of sugar, dyes, drugs, enzymes, gelatin, chemicals...
...ordinary photography silver bromide, emulsified in gelatin, is spread on a transparent cellulose-acetate film, forming a photosensitive layer on one side. When exposed to light, the bromide becomes activated so that it is easily reduced to metallic silver by a developer. The grains of metallic silver remain as black spots after fixing, so that the image is a "negative"-darkest where the light was strongest...