Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Burton's invention makes a revolution in the forging business. Formerly metals were heated by fire and then pounded into the desired shapes. The one primary improvement effected by the electrical method is that the metals have to be heated but once. An electric current that is held under absolute control is passed through the metal, and by means of delicate mechanism, just the same degree of heat can be maintained in the metal for an indefinite length of time. Under the old method, the metal would soon become cold and have again and again to be heated, so that...
...absolute control of the current is therefore the first essential, and Mr. Burton has found that by making the rheostats not out of wire but out of liquids that more perfect control is obtained. Mr. Burton has also discovered that when several metals are heated by the same currents, the softer are not fused more quickly than the harder; in other words, each metal calls for its appropriate amount of the current. Thus he is enabled to heat iron, copper, and brass all by one current...
...there will be a 10 mile handicap race at Chestnut Hill, starting at three o'clock, open to all members of the University. Entrance fee, 25 cents. Entries close Wednesday, Oct. 28, with the secretary at 13 Wadsworth House, or at Thurston's. Silver, bronze and white metal medals will be given...
...freshman class will have an opportunity to show its metal for the first time tonight when it meets to elect officers for the ensuing year. Freshman class meetings have not always been as creditable affairs as the college wishes they might be, though they have been growing steadily better. Of course it is a great deal to expect a set of men who are practically unknown to each other to work in harmony to a wise result. Still the class has been together for a week, and the members have become in some degree acquainted with each other. Some...
...Sargent has just introduced into the rowing tank a new apparatus for measuring the different strokes. A tin cone is weighted to float just below the surface, and from the cone a string runs to the measuring machine. It is fastened to a bar of metal, at the other end of which there is a pencil. The pencil is constantly leaving a a mark on a sheet of paper moved by clock work. At every stroke the rush of water against the cone causes the pencil to make a sharp deflection in the course it is tracing on the paper...