Word: mcculloch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Engineers at Los Angeles' McCulloch Corp. believe that they may have found a solution. In an effort to improve McCulloch's portable electric-starting chain saw, they developed a new method of recharging ordinary nickel-cadmium batteries - the same as those used in transistor radios, electric toothbrushes and other household appliances. Ordinarily, it takes as long as twelve to 15 hours to recharge such batteries from wall out lets. With their system, say the McCulloch engineers, the job can be done in ten to 15 minutes...
...reactions that occur inside a battery, it tends to give off internal gases and overheat whenever the charging current is drastically increased in order to save time. The result is a ruined battery. But by following a series of strong charging pulses with a brief reversal of current, the McCulloch engineers found that they could dissipate the accumulated gases and successfully recharge the battery. The sys tem, says a McCulloch spokesman, is comparable to the way a mother interrupts her infant's feeding with burping to get rid of gas in the baby's stomach...
...first commercial application of this "burping" principle is in a photographic strobe light being marketed under license by Honeywell Inc. No bigger than a cigarette lighter, the attachment can restore the light unit to full power in 15 minutes. Eventually, McCulloch expects the system to find a wide variety of home, industrial and military uses. And McCulloch engineers see no reason why the technique can not be applied to electric cars...
...voting statutes required under the 1965 act. Regarded as a sop to white Southerners who have long opposed civil rights legislation aimed solely at their region, the measure has alienated not only Negroes but a number of important members of Nixon's own party. Ohio's William McCulloch, the House Judiciary Committee's senior Republican, expressed the depth of the disaffection when he said that the Administration proposal "creates a remedy for which there is no wrong and leaves grievous wrongs without adequate remedy...
However depressing matters may seem for the wildcatters, there are still some signs of hope. Companies and syndicates have been created recently to finance independent exploration. Among them are Denver's King Resources, Los Angeles' McCulloch Oil Corp. and Houston's Austral Oil. One wildcatter recently discovered a field at Bell Creek, Mont.; it is capable of producing 130,000 bbl. a day in previously unexplored territory, which suggests that some large untapped pools of oil still exist for the wildcatter to find...