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Nearby is an even more ethereal structure, a "tensegrity" (tension-integrity) mast, made of Monel wire and aluminum tubes, which stands 36 ft. high and weighs only 90 lbs. Bucky's "mast" has the makings of a revolution in architecture, because it puts the horizontal steel-in tension principles that apply to suspension bridges into a vertical context. The wires, in a state of tension, keep the mast unbending and rigid. The aluminum tubes, arranged like pairs of end-to-end coat hangers (see cut), push the wires apart to keep them taut. An exact balance of push...
Prophet ($16,000), a 7½ft. figure of Monel metal covered with nickel-silver by Dentist-turned-Sculptor Seymour Lipton, is both warning and challenge. "I was thinking of Isaiah," Lipton explains. "The work suggests a strident person, a gesture of stepping forward. But the work is also a challenge to the observer to become involved in a whole new language of form belonging to the present age." The U.S.'s new sculpture has indeed developed a provocative new vocabulary if not a language of form. But a vocabulary is not a work...
...gave Cook so much drive that it began underbidding big companies for contracts during World War II. developed a specialized technique for welding Monel. a nickel alloy needed in atomic reactors, after several corporate giants had given up. After the war. Hasselhorn sent teams hustling around the U.S. to recruit brainpower, signed up several employees himself after delivering his pitch over the ham radio he operates as a hobby...
...another Bell-built rocket plane with sweptback, stainless steel wings and tail, and a Monel metal body. It is designed to reach 2,250 m.p.h...
Died. Robert Crooks Stanley, 74, board chairman and longtime president (1922-50) of the International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., world's biggest producer of nickel and platinum, one of the biggest producers of copper; of a heart attack; on Staten Island, N.Y. Mining Engineer Stanley discovered Monel metal, widely used industrial alloy, helped develop the famed Nipissing (cobalt) mine. In World War II, International Nickel delivered to the Allies 1,500,000,000 Ibs. of nickel and 1,750,000,000 Ibs. of copper...