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...regulating the effervescence of champagne, late in the 17th century. Not only did he thus produce a perfect sparkling wine that gushed from the bottle and overflowed the glass, but he invented a system of cork's in place of the bit of oil-soaked rag that had hitherto been used; and, to humor his fancy, he adopted a tall thin tapering glass for the service of his wine in order that he might watch the play of the bubbles...
...Conference marks the opening of a reconstructed program of social service work. Hitherto one secretary has had complete charge of the committee's program. This year seven assistant secretaries will aid in the direction and will hold office hours at the Phillips Brooks House daily from 9 to 1 o'clock, and from 1.45 to 3 o'clock every day but Saturday...
...square inch - more than twice the steam pressure of any steam installation used aboard ship today. This announcement, though it followed close upon the heels of a paper read by a famed engineer before the British Institution of Naval Engineering suggesting that steam turbines could be developed with pressures hitherto undreamed of, might have attracted little notice but for the fact that it went on to say that the Parsons Turbine Co. would build the experimental machinery. When that name Parsons-Sir Charles Algernon Parsons-is mentioned, engineers pay attention...
...Northwestern's announcement came almost exactly on the hundredth anniversary of the steam engine. On Sept. 27, 1825, with no small ceremony and excitement the hitherto horse-drawn cars running from the Darlington coal mines to the Stockton docks (County Durham, England) 37 miles away, were hitched to a steam-driven wagon invented by Engineer George Stephenson of Scotland...
...South America suspension of business at midday is practically universal; banks close, everything closes except places of rest and refreshment. Hitherto this practice has been considered too leisurely for the hurry-up methods of the north...