Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moving ponderously to avenge the cuckoo of Ajaccio, a force of 800 blue-clad, blue-capped gendarmes landed from the mainland under command of General Fournier. The General's first move was to commandeer the largest table in the Cafe Napoleon, swankiest cafe in Ajaccio, only one with a plate-glass screen to protect the customers on the terrace from the mistral. He ordered two bottles of Byrrh for the use of the staff, and spread out his maps. His troops were divided into three columns and sent to scour the island...
...make a daguerreotype, a silver-plated copper plate, scrupulously clean, was subjected to the vapor from iodine until it turned a golden orange color. With the subject's neck held rigidly in an iron clamp the plate was exposed in a camera for from three to 30 minutes, developed by holding it over a cup of hot mercury, fixed by dipping in a mixture of hyposulphite of soda and gold chloride. Finger marks and heat ruin the image of a daguerreotype...
...principle, the Teletactor is very much like a combination of the telephone and the radio. The speaker talks into a microphone. By wires the voice is transmitted to the receiver, much more powerful and sensitive than the telephone receiver, topped by an aluminum plate, which vibrates with each tone of the voice. On this plate the deaf places his fingers, feels the sound of the voice...
...away the biggest maker of tin-plate and tin cans in France is J. J. Car-naud & Forges des Basse-Indre. Last week Continental Can Co. Inc. announced that it had granted this company its patents on canning and canning machinery, will receive royalties in future. Prior to the arrangement, Continental disposed of its stock interest in Compagnie Franco-Con-tinentale de Boites Metalliques, acquired last year. In England, Continental has a minority interest in Metal Box Co., Ltd. Continental's bigger rival, American Can Co., has a substantial interest in British Can Co. Ltd., maker...
Clarence M. Brown, vice president, was elected chairman of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co,. succeeding the late William Lewis Clause. Harold F. Pitcairn. automaker, was added to the directorate. The company is the largest U. S. maker of plate glass, is expanding into chemicals. Albert Spalding, nephew of Albert G. .Spalding, and Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. were elected to the directorate of A, G- Spalding & Brother