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...Liberal Club dining room will be open to members on Monday, serving both luncheon and dinner as usual, it was announced by A.D. Langmuir '31, president of the Club. Members are urged to bring guests for meals on the first few days of the term...
...symposium on the structure of molecules, Dr. Irving Langmuir, President of the Society and assistant director of research for General Electric Co., told of studies of oil films on water. Experiment showed that these films are only one molecule thick, all molecules arranged in one direction, with "their heads up and their tails down," as it were, showing that the molecules have different properties on different sides. What was more, a talking movie was exhibited showing some of his experiments. In the opening scene a toy boat sped across a pan of water propelled by a piece of camphor...
...example: Willis Rodney Whitney, 60, directs nearly 400 chemists, physicists, engineers, research assistants, machinists, glass blowers, electricians, stenographers, clerks, for General Electric. They work in laboratories at Schenectady, N. Y., Lynn and Pittsfield, Mass., Cleveland. On his staff are Dr. William David Coolidge (cathode rays) and Dr. Irving Langmuir (incandescent gases). Professor Whitney (he is nonresident professor of chemical research for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, school of most industrial research leaders), has a genius for inspiring co-workers with eagerness for their jobs...
...Coolidge of Schenectady had produced powerful cathode rays outside a vacuum tube; his colleague, Dr. Langmuir, had perfected a hydrogen-hydrogen welding flame, the hottest ever; another colleague, Dr. Alexanderson, had nearly perfected radio television...
Hottest Flame. Dr. Irving Langmuir of the General Electric Company described his discovery of a flame hotter than hydrogen burning in oxygen (oxy-hydrogen). He made atomic hydrogen burn in an atmosphere of molecular hydrogen. His hydrogen blowtorch melted tungsten wire like an icicle, indicating that its heat was at least 7,000° F. Playing on a sheet of chrome steel the flame left molten pools behind it. Significance: steel girders could be welded silently instead of noisily riveted;* the welds would not (as when an oxyhydrogen flame is used) be oxidized and thus weakened, they would be annealing...