Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heary C. Meadow, Coordinator of Industrial Research at the University of Rochester, has been appointed Executive. Secretary to Harvard's Committee on Research and Development for Medicine and Health...
...thriving organization of imaginative zealots called the British Interplanetary Society, whose purpose is "development of interplanetary exploration and communication." Last week the B.I.S. had a record 580 members, including such philosophical well-wishers as George Bernard Shaw. The most active members are scientists from Britain's great research laboratories. Said one of these undauntedly: "So far, the whole [high altitude rocket] program is American. We cannot afford to sponsor direct development. But even if we have nothing but pencil and paper, we intend to keep at the problem." Space Suit. With pencil, paper and soaring imagination, Britain...
...help Sarnoff translate his theory into practice, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis put up research funds. Then, in the School's machine shop, Sarnoff,* with the help of Dr. Leslie Silverman, began assembling transformers and rheostats. Soon they had a machine which could deliver regular pulses of an electric current. It was too small to produce a shock. But, applied to the phrenic nerves of monkeys, cats and dogs, the current made the breathing muscles work rhythmically...
...Boston's staid old Algonquin where he had called a meeting of 25 leading Bostonians. including Harvard's James Bryant Conant. and Charles Francis Adams. Said he: Lever was going to build a 20-story building on Park Avenue at 53rd Street and a $3,000,000 research laboratory in Edgewater, N.J. Everything except manufacturing (25-30% of Lever's total production) would leave Boston by Dec. 1, although the new building would not be ready for two years...
...honor of the showing, Finley will stage a pre-premiere reception at Eliot House in conjunction with the board of directors of Ivy Films Research, Inc., the legal name of the film club...