Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prizes for the first, second and third places will be ten, five and two dollars respectively. A committee of three judges will make the awards. Professor Lathrop, of Dartmouth College, William Longyear, of Pratt Institute, and Frank Ritter, Display Director for Eastman Kodak Company were the three men chosen by the Carnival Committee...
...efficient method of obtaining vitamins from oils, but distilling vitamins is not so simple as distilling whiskey. Vitamin distillation has been practical only in recent years, has not yet been completely commercialized. Last week, at scientific meetings in Ithaca, Manhattan and Washington, Dr. Kenneth Claude Devereux Hickman of Eastman Kodak laboratories, Rochester, N. Y.-a British bachelor of 41 who likes to give gay cocktail parties, and happens to be more responsible than any other chemist for developing the technique of vitamin distillation-described the results which he and his co-workers have obtained in this new field...
...Hickman still, the hot surface carrying the distillate and the cold condensing surface are in the form of concentric, vertical cylinders. The vacuum is about one-millionth of atmospheric pressure. General Mills joined Eastman Kodak in erecting a pilot plant, which was put into semi-commercial operation a year ago. Its Vitamin A capacity is 60 billion units a week. This output is expected to be trebled by two stills of improved design now under construction...
Aluminum Co. sold its patent on the process to Count Cippico, who set up Zeus Corp. to handle it. The name Zeus was chosen because it is pronounceable in every tongue (same reason Eastman chose the name Kodak). From a tiny office in Manhattan, Zeus Corp. six weeks ago began distributing black aluminum holders in several sizes at $1 and $2 each. By last week Zeus holders were selling like hot cakes. Most convincing evidence of the gadget's merit lies in the using. Commented Esquire: "After you smoke a pack, take out the cigaret filter and be thankful...
Riggs, enthusiastic over the scientific aspects of his machine, described how the process works. When a revolver inounted on a table is fired, it severs a wire carrying a current, thus tripping a high-power 7500 volt condenser. As the bullet passes the open shutter of an ordinary Kodak, the tremendous electrical discharge causes a spark of approximately 900,000 candlepower to flash for 1-1,000,000 to 1-1,500,00 of a second. It is the inconceivable brevity of the flash and the enormous voltage released suddenly by the condenser that make possible such a high-speed...