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...bland orange-yellow of sodium-vapor lamps now lights hundreds of miles of U. S. highway. Until recently it has been a ticklish and costly job to get the sodium into the highly evacuated lamps without contamination. Last week General Electric Co.'s laboratories at Schenectady announced a clever new way of filling the bulbs. The sodium is packaged in tiny, frail glass capsules, a capsule placed inside each lamp, the lamp pumped out and sealed. Then short radio waves are turned on the capsule. It heats up, explodes. The sodium is thus freed inside the lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lamp Trick | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity of 90%. Molds and bacteria, which would spoil such warm, damp meat if left to themselves, are put out of action by ultraviolet light from a Westinghouse lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tenderized Beef | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...curious, silent, red-headed woman named Rachel, a little girl who was dying. Antoine was no surgeon, but incapable of taking thought without action, he decided to operate at once. He cleared the plates off the table, placed the child on it. He stripped the shade from the lamp. Sweating, exalted, anxious and yet confident, he thought, when the preparations went well: "I'm a wonderful fellow." But when the thunder rolled as he made the incision, he reflected: "A bit previous, the applause." He finished, triumphant-then saw that the child seemed to have stopped breathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nobel Surprise Winner | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...train of light emitted from a 1,000-watt lamp is "sectioned" by a formidable-looking device called a standard frequency generator (see cut), also developed at Harvard, which alternately brightens and dims the beam 19,200,000 times a second. This is like nicking at regular but very close intervals a cable which is rapidly being paid off a drum. The light beam is split. One part is conducted over a long course (185 yd.), the other over a short course (about 2 yd.). Both are reflected back to a photoelectric cell. On the beam which has been over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fastest Thing | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...besides postcards. Among the earliest were lumps of sugar soaked in absinthe which his mother tossed him when he was ten to shut him up. By the age of 15 he was drawing steady inspiration from gin and whiskey bottles. By the '305 he had moved on to lamp fuel, mentholated alcohol, petroleum, benzine, eau de cologne, ether, with opium and hashish on the side. In 1936 London's great Tate Gallery publicly and prematurely proclaimed him dead of drink. Utriilo was not dead and he was no longer drunk; he was still prodding his imagination (by praying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Utrillo's Duty | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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