Word: oxygenation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock this evening in Pierce Hall a moving picture on welding entitled "Oxygen--the Wonder Woxkect will be presented under the auspices of the Harvard Engineering Society. Professor A. S. Kinsey, head of the Department of Shop Practice at Stevens Institute of Technology, will speak during the showing of the pictures...
...second attempt", continued Mr. Mallory, 'that it was decided to use oxygen". The oxygen tanks which weighed 32 pounds, proved unsuccessful because of their weight. It was on this trip that the record height of 27,235 feet was reached...
...lecture was given on Friday by Mr.Mallory, one of the party who atempted to reach the top of Mt.Everest, on this, the second expedition. The chief difficulty is due to the scarcity of air which prevents proper breathing. Nevertheless the lecturer placed no reliance on the use of oxygen. The difficulties involved in carrying a sufficient quantity more than balances its possible utility. It is also disliked for sentimental reasons. The climbers would like to think that they have climbed the mountain by their own efforts and not through the help of any new-fangled scientific contraption...
...planets occupy prominent places in the evening sky. Venus in the west shortly after sunset is by far the most brilliant object. It is during the last year that the word comes from the Mount Wilson Observatory in California that definite evidence has been obtained of the absence of oxygen and water vapor bands in the spectrum of Venus, thus indicating an apparent lack on that planet of what we regard as life essentials...
...work upon which Mr. Dunbar was engaged when the explosion occurred was not of an experimental nature, but consisted of pumping oxygen in the gaseous form from a balloon in a shed outside the building by means of a compressor with water-lubricated cylinders into a tank. It should be said that this is a standard process constantly carried on in commercial plants. How the oil which caused the explosion got into the tank in this particular case is the problem which we are making every effort to solve in cooperation with the State authorities...