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...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...
...chief & Mrs. Coolidge to the Mellon mansion near the smoky fork of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers. In the morning they breakfasted with the Secretary's brother, Richard B. Mellon, in another Mellon mansion. Then President Coolidge drove through the streets to visit, among other places, the Fort Pitt blockhouse and the Washington Cross-his Chief of Staff (see p. 10). a time when George Washington was swept off a raft in the icy Allegheny and almost drowned...
...could be gathered again. These, a gay jumble of antique anecdotes, had been joined and backed with gauze so that they might last perhaps forever. The manuscript of An Account of Corsica had been preserved intact, as had letters from Boswell to his wife, to his sons, to William Pitt, to William Temple, to Edmund Burke, to Edmund Malone, to Isabella de Zuylen ("Zelide"), to Samuel Johnson...