Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank at the other. On the drum's surface was incised a spiral line. On either side of the drum was a small tube; over the inner end of each tube was a parchment diaphragm; centred in each...
Married. Frances Lehman, daughter of Arthur Lehman (banker-realtor) granddaughter of Adolph Lewisohn (capitalist-philanthropist); to John L. Loeb, son of Carl M. Loeb (President, American Metal Co.); in Manhattan, at the home of Mr. Lewisohn...
...Chicago Racquet Club, donned a modish bathing garment, swam with vigor for ten minutes in the pool. Hastening to Gary, she viewed the mechanical operations of steel working from a glass-inclosed moving observation platform, but descended from it to stand beside the thrilling cascades of moulten metal. Amid the glare of the furnaces her regal and commanding presence was revealed at last in an approximately iridescent milieu...
...medalist, and a physicist famous for his research in high pressure, is at present working on the viscosity of mercury but stated, when asked whether he had subjected any atoms to hydraulic compression that he had limited his activities in this field to pressure of many tons upon single metal crystals: At Yale, a pressure physicist has succeeded in making a fat square atom into a long thin atom by means of a pile driver, but the significance of his experiment has not thrilled the scientific world...
...with larger brake drums and gasoline tank and a changed running board. The modifications require 17,000 tons of steel additional to the company's normal annual tonnage. If Ford bodies were made entirely of steel, the increased tonnage would be 55,000, according to the Daily Metal Trade...