Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographic experiments which Morse and Professor J. W. Draper were making. About 1842 Mathew Brady opened a studio at Broadway & Fulton Street to take the likenesses of the Quality. He was immediately successful, made numerous improvements in the process. Tinted Brady daguerreotypes on ivory won a gold medal at the London World's Fair of 1851. About 1855 successful Photographer Brady imported from Britain one Alexander Gardner, an expert in the wet plate process invented by Frederick Scott Archer, which used glass plates dipped in collodion, permitted almost instantaneous exposures. Brady & Gardner later opened another studio in Washington. Almost...
...Manhattan, two men held up James Rizzo, messenger boy, gave him a gold watch, a silver medal set with a diamond and $64 in cash...
...Carnegie International Exhibition at Pittsburgh, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last month (TIME, Oct. 19). But the richest prizes go to winners at the Chicago Art Institute. Prizes, ranging from the Mr. & Mrs. Frank G. Logan $2,500 first prize down to the William M. R. French memorial medal, total $7,500 as compared with $5,600 in Pittsburgh. Three juries finished their deliberations last week; medals were presented, checks delivered, the public admitted to pass on the juries' findings...
...Professor Percy Rogers Howe of Harvard went U. S. dentistry's prime award, the Fauchard Medal, for demonstrating how poor nutrition causes teeth to decay. He saluted the medal with a speech...
Honored. Dr. Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University: with the John Fritz gold medal, top U. S. engineering award: *for his achievements as "scientist, engineer, author and inventor of the tuning of oscillating circuits and the loading of telephone circuits by inductance coils...