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Word: grainless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Dr. Robert W. Carter, research head of Taylor-Sloane Corp., which has been trying for ten years to perfect metal alloy photographic film, announced that it had succeeded, that the new film would be on sale within 90 days. According to Dr. Carter, Taylor-Sloane film is cheap, grainless, sensitive, non-inflammable, indestructible, non-shrinkable, capable of being used on both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Items | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...went to lunch he left a wet slab on a hot press, hurried back, when he remembered, to remove it. Meantime a cranky steam valve had permitted the press to grow hotter and heavier with the result that Inventor Mason found, instead of a fibrous board, a dense, grainless, rigid sheet of material, which, in its present refined form of "Presdwood," accounts for 70% of Masonite's business. The other 30% is in fibre insulating board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Masonite | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Berlin, last fortnight, Professor Emanuel Goldberg, German photographic chemist, announced that he had found a grainless emulsion for films which makes it possible to take a photograph the size of a pinpoint (.01 sq. millimeter) and greatly enlarge it with perfect reproduction of detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grainless Films | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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