Word: heating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...atomic theory and its relation to heat, since burning involves the transfer of electrons from one atom to another," said Professor Lamb, "will form the basis for the new discoveries in the chemical constitution of heat which are sure to be made in the near future...
...Waste is a characteristic by-product of modern civilization," said Professor H. N. Davis G'03, in treating the subject from the engineering aspect, "and industrially it is nowhere more evident than in the waste of heat." Professor Davis confined himself largely to the heat lost in mechanical engineering and the possible methods of saving...
Will learn To Use Heat Now Wasted...
...insulation of the hot body is one way," he said. "The fireless cooke" has saved infinite heat in cooking. Just so will we some day save the heat wasted by our blast furnaces and power houses and with it heat and light whole districts...
...saving would be possible tomorrow. "If we could change our habits so as to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning and go to bed at 6 o'clock in the evening, we would be able to eliminate the difficulties that prevent power houses from using surplus heat as light when it is dark, and as heat when it is cold...