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...much-publicized electrical companies-General Electric and Westinghouse-supply most of the U. S. with lamp bulbs. In Europe that function is performed chiefly by potent Philips Glow-lampworks of Holland, which also boasts one of the finest physical research laboratories east of the Atlantic. Last week it appeared that all three companies were working independently on the same thing -a new sodium vapor bulb to be used primarily for street lighting. In Manhattan, 100-odd members, of the New York Electrical Society sat like jaundiced mummies in an auditorium suffused with the yellow sodium light while their president described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light Bulbs | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...levels of illumination, casts almost no shadow. The yellow glow of the sodium eliminates the offensive glare of white light, and, although the average motorist would probably find the bulb dim at first sight, it actually gives three to four times more light than the ordinary street lamp. The Philips bulb is credited with increasing seeing power at night from 12 to 20 times. Already installed in a dozen places in Holland, England, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway, it has lighted highways so brightly that automobiles can speed at 60 m.p.h. without headlights. European police are delighted with it, automobile clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light Bulbs | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...Pecora left the District Attorney's office to return to private practice with only $525 in the world. Married, father of one son, he lives on Riverside Drive, likes to play pinocle, does his best work late at night, takes regular sun-lamp treatments. As a prosecutor, he has a remarkable memory for oral evidence. Yet he can be blandly forgetful when out to trip a witness. Persistent, he will ask a witness the same question in 20 different forms until he gets an answer. Because he dogged Mr. Morgan about his income taxes until that witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wealth on Trial | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

After an absence of eight years, the too-biter has finally returned to Harvard. It was discovered by a Freshman yesterday afternoon patiently waiting by the unlighted lamp-post outside of President Lowell's home on Quincy Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN DISCOVERS BUG NOT SEEN IN EIGHT YEARS | 5/5/1933 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Samuel Lubash of Manhattan announced* another kind of internal sun-lamp wherewith he can penetrate the bladder and ureter into the kidney and treat tuberculosis anywhere along the drainage system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Light in a Kidney | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

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