Word: refrigerationer
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Professor Richard Osborn Cummings of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis. once wrote a Harvard thesis on refrigeration. After that he went inside the icebox. Last week Professor Cummings published The American and His Food (University of Chicago Press; $2.50), an important social study of diet and health since 1789. In...
When the War of 1870 broke, all Germans were ordered out of Paris. The elder Diesel sought refuge in England, and sent the boy to an uncle in Augsburg. In trade school there, Rudolf set out grimly to be an engineer. When he was 20, studying at the Technische Hochschule...
His refrigeration work impressed Diesel with the amount of heat generated when gases are compressed. This is the basic principle of the Diesel engine, which has no electric ignition. In a Diesel, air is sucked into the cylinder, then highly compressed by the piston motion so that its temperature rises...
To Dr. Mary Engle Pennington, 67, Manhattan consultant: the Francis P. Garvan Gold Medal, established by the late head of the Chemical Foundation to honor U. S. women chemists. Born in Nashville, Mary Pennington took her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, got fellowships there and at Yale, ran the...
The U. S. Patent Office in Washington remembers a story about a patent examiner who, in 1870, got discouraged. In 1870 there were no automobiles, airplanes, streamlined trains, steam turbines, oil-burning ships or Diesel engines; no movies, radio, television, electric refrigeration, vacuum cleaners, air conditioning; no rayon, nylon, Cellophane...