Word: magnetos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week with the fanfare appropriate to one of Germany's leading corporations was the 50th anniversary of the founding of Robert Bosch A. G. Happily the date coincided with the 75th birthday of its benevolent, snow-bearded founder, the man whose name throughout the mechanized world means magneto...
...Stuttgart that Robert Bosch first set himself up as a maker of magnetos with little capital except his ingenuity and training, part of which was gained in a short turn in the U. S. in Edison's laboratories. In early days the Bosch magneto was used on stationary internal combustion engines, was not adapted to an automobile until 1896. And it was not until Bosch began to make a high-tension magneto with high-tension spark plugs- a simplified ignition system-that Bosch became an international name. By 1912 he had made 1,000,000 magnetos...
...principal reason for the belittling of this rumor was the ease with which radio waves, short enough to transmit sufficient power to effect a magneto, could be shielded. These waves are of optical range, that is to say, their power of penetration is little better than that of light. This means that the hood of a car would be more than sufficient to render them impotent...
...first describes an early trans-continental flight to Australia, and it illustrates abundantly the devotion of Day Lewis to a strictly contemporary poetic diction, which takes account of the machine and the effect of machinery upon modern life. There is mention, for example, of 'petrol pump,' 'hangar,' 'filter,' 'magneto,' and other technical expressions. Dr. Johnson's strictures on this kind of poetic diction appear in his discussion of Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis," and though they posses a universal validity, they do not apply, with any exactness, to Day Lewis, for that poet has worked them into his verses in such...
...case of tritium, triple-weight hydrogen, is different. Its discovery was foreshadowed by the somewhat dubious magneto-optic method which anticipated the identification of deuterium. Then, in England, Lord Rutherford bounced deutons (deuterium nuclei) together, got protons and something of mass three which he thought was either an unknown form of helium or triple-weight hydrogen. Cautious Lord Rutherford took his time ascertaining that the new particles were both helium and tritium. Meantime Dr. Merle Antony Tuve and his associates at the Carnegie Institution of Washington had identified tritium particles by measuring their mass as indicated by the curvature...