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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Induction currents, engineers are finding, provide a quick, simple, easily controlled way of heating or melting metals and of concocting alloys. An induction furnace is simple-it is merely a transformer whose core (or "secondary") is replaced by the metal "charge" to be heated. The coiled wires surrounding the charge carry alternating current, usually of high frequency-changing the direction of its flow not 60 times a second (as in ordinary household AC) but several thousand times a second. As the secondary current induced in the metal charge stabs back & forth, the metal's resistance creates great heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Transformer to Furnace | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...conditioning units are rated by ton capacity: one-ton machine removes enough heat to melt one ton of ice every 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Air-Conditioned War | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Having narrowly escaped permanent freezing by the vetoed Fulmer bill (TIME, Aug.11), the vast U.S. cotton surplus last week began to melt, sent a glacial trickle towards a potentially vast war market. The Department of Agriculture announced that 1,500,000 bales of Government-owned, 1937-crop cotton are now available for export at 13¼ a lb., 4? below the current market price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Glacier Melts | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Oswego, N. Y. There the 369th anti-aircraft regiment, a Negro National Guard unit from Harlem, is having a year's training. The men of the 369th get more from their band than most regiments do. Almost every night they hear a jam session, almost hot enough to melt the icicles on the recreation barracks. The band's leaders are Sergeant Reuben B. Reeves and Private Otis Johnson-onetime trumpeters in Cab Galloway's and Don Redman's orchestras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jive in Barracks | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...this. But for Aline Bernstein it was quite natural. Her writing combines a theatre worker's feeling for mannered grace in gesture and interiors with the lithe conversational style of a skilled manual worker, a cultivated peasant. Hers is sentimental writing, but it is good enough to melt in the mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Natural Switch | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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