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Most widespread innovation for 1940 are the Sealed-Beam headlights on 95% of the models (result of cooperation between the industry, lamp & lens manufacturers). Lens, bulb and reflector are sealed into a single unit. The new lamps light the road without blinding. Another big development is the "Hydra-Matic" drive (see Oldsmobile), which dooms the clutch pedal, lets the accelerator control...
Died. Ethel May Dell, fiftyish, prolific author of 16 super-saccharine best-selling novels (Greatheart, The Hundredth Chance, The Lamp in the Desert, etc.); in Hertford, England...
Some farsighted industrial laboratories have long since recognized the value of pure science. At the General Electric laboratories, Irving Langmuir was told by the director not to bother with practical applications, but to find out what he could about what went on inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp. Thereafter Langmuir spent three years "investigating facts," discovered some-for example, that a bulb filled with nitrogen or argon works better than an evacuated bulb-which now save electricity consumers several million dollars...
...work thus, with a lick & a promise, great were the medical lessons they learned. Brilliant U. S. Neurologist Harvey Gushing, confronted with crowding thousands of head wounds such as he had never seen before, devised a dozen new brain operations by the light of a kerosene lamp in French front-line operating shacks. Tetanus, great killer in all previous wars, was practically eliminated by routine injections of anti-tetanic serum to all wounded soldiers. Fatalities from black gas gangrene were greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed by famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late...
...felt them wheel me under the lamp," he wrote. "I felt a succession of little pricks in a wide circle ... on my head. Then . . . one long horizontal incision at the back of my neck. This did not hurt me either. I felt soft gestures, as if my flesh were being opened and folded back...