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...dance committee includes: Chairman, Douglas Mercer. Tickets and sales: Walter T. Ridder, Arthur Cantor, Henry A. Burgess, Christian M. Lauritsen, Publicity: Vinton Freedley, Jr., John L. Donnell, Herbert Scheinberg. Ushers: William C. Coleman, Jr., Thomas Healey, Philip C. Neal. Patroness Committee: Frederick Holdsworth, Jr., Douglas Mercer...
...tube strong enough to carry that tremendous energy is no great feat. General Electric's Dr. William David Coolidge built one for 900,000 volts. It is now being used to treat cancer in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. Then there are Caltech's Dr. Charles Christian Lauritsen's for 1,200,000 volts, Carnegie Institution's Dr. Tuve's for 2,000,000. In Berlin last year Drs. F. Lange and A. Brasch sent 2,600,000 volts through a simple tube, are building a bigger one for the 16,000,000 volts which...
Millikan Tube. Members of the Radiological Society of North America meeting in Pasadena gave Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, a gold medal for a powerful X-ray source developed in his laboratories. The new 650,000-volt tube, the work of Dr. E. C. Lauritsen, is the most powerful ever demonstrated. Dr. William David Coolidge in General Electric Laboratories, Schenectady, has been experimenting for the past year with a 900,000-volt tube not yet perfected for demonstration. Hospitals today use a 200,000-volt tube. Five billion dollars worth of radium (20 Ib.) would...