Word: matthew
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Vacuum. Reputedly the oldest of oil companies in existence, Vacuum was founded in 1866, seven years after the first commercial production of petroleum, by Matthew Ewing, inventor, and Hiram B. Everest, grocer, on the basis of a vacuum distillation process which Mr. Ewing maintained could turn petroleum 100% into kerosene. This was a valuable claim because the lighter distillations, such as are used for gasoline, were in those days dumped into rivers as waste-products. When the process failed, Mr. Ewing dropped out, but Mr. Everest developed Vacuum Harness Oil, sold it in second-hand oyster cans...
...next Tuesday, on "Robert Bridges, 'The Testament of Beauty'." The following Tuesday, February 25, his subject will be "Arthur Hugh Clough", and on Tuesday, March 4, he will speak on "Methods of Criticism in Poetry". The series will be concluded Tuesday, March 11, when Professor Garrod will speak on "Matthew Arnold as Critic...
Professor Garrod began his group of lectures at the University last fall when he delivered four lectures during the months of October and November. At that time, he spoke on "Poetry and the Teaching Office", followed by two lectures on "Matthew Arnold" and a lecture on "Emerson...
...incident of the Manhattan meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers last week (see below) was Dr. Matthew Luckiesh's presentation of his new General Electric sunlight lamp. The bulb is 6¼ in. long. It contains two separated tungsten electrodes, a little pool of mercury, a tungsten filament. When the electric switch is turned, current heats the filament to incandescence. The heat vaporizes the mercury. The mercury vapor diffuses between the electrodes and permits the current to jump across as a brilliant mercury arc. The combined light of arc, electrodes and filament appears much whiter than Mazda...
...Editor Matthew Carey of the American Museum, wrote George Washington in 1788: "I consider such easy vehicles of knowledge [magazines] as more highly calculated than any other to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry, and meliorate the morals of an enlightened and free people." If the encouragement of sainted statesmen could have paid printers' bills and enlisted subscribers, the careers of early American periodicals would have made a less hectic story than they do.* More aptly did Noah Webster write in his American Magazine,? in the same year: "The expectation of failure is connected with the very name...