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Butadiene rubber itself is not new. It is the same in composition as the noisily touted German synthetic rubber called "Buna." But the German product is made from acetylene (a product of limestone and coal) in five complicated stages and its price is around 60? a pound. Inventor Egloff estimates that his butadiene rubber, if produced in any quantity, can be made to sell for less than 20? a pound. E. I.. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s famed chlorine-containing synthetic rubber (TIME, May 6, 1935), now called "neoprene," is probably superior to butadiene rubber in some...
...sort of research in experimental physics. Three years ago the cyclotron switched from pure science to practical science when it was discovered that beams of neutrons produced by the cyclotron destroyed cancer cells in mice. A regular program of medical cyclotron work was set afoot, in charge of the inventor's brother, Dr. John Hundale Lawrence, who has a medical degree from Harvard. One of his latest discoveries, announced last week, is that different types of cancer cells assimilate the element phosphorus at different rates. This was learned by attaching radioactive tags to phosphorus atoms and shooting them into...
...That Inventor Ferguson will go down in history with Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright brothers...
...speedboat bore down on the distressed craft, the conning tower was roped and the sub towed ashore. This week Inventor Connett plans a submerged trip from Chicago to Michigan City or Waukegan...
...Thetis tragedies occurred last week on Lake Michigan. Just off Chicago's Jackson Park, a submarine, wallowing on the surface, got in trouble. In 15 minutes the entire crew was rescued. The entire crew consisted of one Barney Connett, 34, a gasoline service station manager by vocation, an inventor and mechanic in his spare time.' Rescue apparatus: a speed boat and a lasso...