Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis", one of those now in the cases, was created in 1793, when the ominous influence of the French Revolution was beginning to penetrate into England. In the engraving Pitt is steering Britannia in the snugly-built ship "Constitution," between Charybdis, the ministers of the Crown, and Scylla, a towering threatening rock capped by the colors of France. True to her attitude at that time, the fair maiden England is heedless of Charybdis, but is gazing fearfully at the rock and the sea dogs swarming around its base, representing, in ugly caricatures, the famous trio...
...Pitt and the Seven Years War", Professor Whitney, Emerson...
...flour, because damp wood makes warped boards, grain and lumber dealers asked Canada's National Bureau of Research for a quick, cheap way of measuring the moisture of their goods. The Bureau instructed Professor Eli Franklin Burton of Toronto University to work on it; he put one Arnold Pitt, his graduate student, at the task. Last week their invention was perfected...
...Student Pitt measured the conductivity of various samples of grain and lumber. These he then dried in an oven, collecting the vapor in an absorbent material which he weighed before and after the baking. This is the way dealers grade their goods. Thus the researcher obtained figures on moisture content and electrical conductivity. These he correlated into a chart. So much electrical resistance meant so much water...
After that it was easy to design a container, connected with an electric circuit and gauge, in which grain or lumber might rest. Where it took hours by the oven process to grade material, the Burton-Pitt machine takes ten minutes...