Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hangman's technique, Phil Hanna was called to do the job for nothing. Some 50 years ago Hanna was shocked by the spectacle of a bungled hanging. Thereupon he took up hanging as a hobby, experimented with plow lines and straw dummies. When he perfected a foolproof method, he volunteered his services to any State that needed...
...Pincus' newest trick was a modification of the late (1859-1924) Jacques Loeb's method of producing fatherless sea urchins by soaking sea urchin eggs in very salty water, of producing fatherless frogs by pricking frog eggs with a needle. Dr. Pincus soaked some rabbit ova in brine. Other rabbit ova he heated to 113° F., about 10° above normal. When he placed salted or heated ova in the fallopian tubes of rabbits, the rabbits became pregnant. Too impatient to wait 33 days for normal parturition, he killed the does, slit them open, found well-developed...
Setting up the control for a 10-in. design by the Lefier method costs about $5. The design is laid down with insulating paint on a sheet of copper. An electric contact is swept back & forth across the sheet. Through the sheet and the contact a weak electric current is passed. Wherever the contact is separated from the copper by the insulated design the current is broken. This intermittent current is sent to an amplifier, relayed thence to a line of electromagnets, each of which controls a needle in the loom. Thus, for every cross-section of the design...
Last week Mr. Ketcham announced and demonstrated "Colorcable," his patented method of transmitting color from any where to anywhere in a matter of minutes. Confronted with a color sample at the transmitting end, the operator takes a number of variously colored disks, inserts them in a calibrated, electrically driven wheel. Whirling the wheel resolves the disks into one tone. Disks are added or subtracted until the color appearing on the wheel matches that of the sample. Then the number and color-designations of the disks are wired to the receiver, who has a disk-&-wheel...
...Other big Koppers subsidiary is Koppers Gas & Coke, whose activities include such diverse jobs as supplying gas to Montreal and creosoting ties for U. S. railroads. Both Eastern Gas and Koppers Gas grew out of a patented coke oven invented by a German named Heinrich Koppers, who improved the method of saving the gas and other coal derivatives formerly blown away in thick smoke. His process caught the eye of Pittsburgh's late Henry Bedinger Rust, who took his ideas for exploiting the Koppers patents to the Mellon family offices...