Word: magnetos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea was simple indeed. The way to stop spark plugs from broadcasting, he decided, was to enclose the ignition wires in metal shields leading from the magneto to the plugs. Thus, there would be a return path for the high-frequency elements in the spark current (the source of the trouble). The plugs would go right on broadcasting, but the waves they created would stay inside the shield...
...eyes with a handkerchief. "I feel wonderful," he said, with the tears still coming. He had narrowly missed seeing his three entries take first, second and fourth place; with only eight laps to go, one of Moore's cars had to drop out with a broken magneto strap. But by taking first and third, Moore won $65,855 in prizes, split (6s%-35%) with his drivers...
Answer Man. Announcement No. 2 came out last week: Jack & Heintz Precision Industries would soon merge with Eisemann Corp., Brooklyn magneto makers. But it was only half the story. The rest was told by a man named Benjamin Charles Milner, Jr. a Manhattan engineer turned financier...
Milner had big plans for the new Jack & Heintz. First objective was completion of the merger-a real one this time-with Eisemann Corp., once the No. 1 U.S. magneto maker. Eisemann's ready-made distribution organization of 700 outlets would come in mighty handy once Jack & Heintz started rolling out such products as motors, engine parts, gages, ball bearings, for which, said Milner, $18 million worth of orders were already on hand...
...Fred Allison and his collaborators of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, applying a magneto-optic method of analysis, a thousand times more sensitive than the arc spectroscope, to the study of concentrates from monazite sand, believed they had two-millionths of a gram of eka-iodine in the final concentrate. They named it alabamine. Dr. Allison did not isolate it in pure form, nor were other chemists able to confirm his magneto-optic suspicion. The anglo-helvetian stars, however, may merely have fallen on alabamine...