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...history from this broadcast. It's the setting up of the wide chessboard that's so fascinating. Many thanks for the fun, and a new look at things." And Winifred Fisher, Executive Director of the New York Adult Education Council, passed on a comment Dean Langmuir, investment counselor and brother of the electrical Irving, recently made to her. " 'The World and America' is perfectly wonderful," he said. "I wouldn't miss it for anything. I ought to know these things but I don't, or if I ever knew them I've forgotten...
Morse's group solved this problem by making large, high-powered versions of a diffusion pump invented by General Electric's Physicist Irving Langmuir. The diffusion pump works by blowing a strong jet of mercury or oil vapor into the neck of the vessel to be emptied. The vapor stream traps air molecules and sweeps them out through a series of locks. With this equipment, Morse got down to a working vacuum of one micron (a thousandth of a millimeter...
...perhaps the calmest burst of amazing prophecy on record, General Electric's famed Physicist-Chemist Irving Langmuir recently predicted that man would some day speed up to 5,000 miles an hour in a vacuum tube. He thought it would be perfectly possible to build an airtight vehicle, magnetically suspended in the tube and electronically controlled, in which travelers might zip from New York to San Francisco in an hour...
First Sergt. Morris Isacowitz, who served as master of ceremonies and was described by Sergt. Seigle as "the best ` first sergeant in the army," introduce Lieut. Nelson T. Headley and member of the faculty, who were guests, include Dean Fox and Professors Pratt, Estor Langmuir, and R. H. Matthewson...
...Irving Langmuir (1932), General Electric chemist, dour, hard-working student of high vacuums and surface tensions, largely responsible for modern electric lights...