Word: researching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maurice Holland, director of the National Research Council's division of engineering and industrial research, published his Industrial Explorers (Harper's, $3), describing the work of 19 scientists who lead the industrial research of companies smart enough to hire them...
...Harvey Nathaniel Davis, Harvard's able, big-hearted professor of mechanical engineering, made a special point to get Dr. John Johnston, U. S. Steel Corp.'s director of research, to attend his inauguration this week as president of Stevens Institute of Technology. Stevens Institute sells scientific information and advice to wise business leaders...
...great corporations snatch at such new knowledge and profit from the usufructs. General Motors, General Electric, Westinghouse, Bell Telephone, U. S. Steel and others have their own research staffs. The research leaders. The fine character, the sure knowledge and the adept application of the men who lead industrial research in this country have done incalculable good in this persuasion of industrialists. Those described in Maurice Holland's Industrial Explorers epitomize the profession. For example: Willis Rodney Whitney, 60, directs nearly 400 chemists, physicists, engineers, research assistants, machinists, glass blowers, electricians, stenographers, clerks, for General Electric. They work in laboratories...
...quickly, could be sold only near the coasts. The trouble was, he discovered, that the fish were frozen too slowly. So he invented a refrigerator for quick freezing. Now frozen fish are shipped throughout the country, housewives can vary their menus, and the Atlantic Coast Fisheries who supported the research makes money...
William Hastings Bassett, 60, led the research into the microstructure of copper and its alloys. And from this came dependable, non-corrosive water and steam pipes, boiler tubes to the profit of the American Brass Co., whose technical superintendent...