Word: rubberize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particularly memorable project, he recalls, was a plan to create a foam rubber teapot, which necessitated something from which to make the mold. The answer: Kiely loaned him the House's silver teapot without flinching--"probably an heirloom," Fitch says. He never told Kiely about how the Plaster of Paris and other chemicals almost didn't come off the silver...
...Baekeland and his rivals was to find some set of conditions--some slippery ratio of ingredients and heat and pressure--that would yield a more workable, shellac-like substance. Ideally it would be something that would dissolve in solvents to make insulating varnishes and yet be as moldable as rubber. Starting around 1904, Baekeland and an assistant began their search. Three years later, after filling laboratory books with page after page of failed experiments, Baekeland finally developed a material that he dubbed in his notebooks "Bakelite." The key turned out to be his "bakelizer," a heavy iron vessel that...
...Wright brothers had been fascinated by the idea of flight from an early age. In 1878 their father, a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, gave them a flying toy made of cork and bamboo. It had a paper body and was powered by rubber bands. The young boys soon broke the fragile toy, but the memory of its faltering flight across their living room stayed with them. By the mid-1890s Wilbur was reading every book and paper he could find on the still earthbound science of human flight. And four years before they made...
...rubber match, Jonas shone again, making 28 saves and allowing only two goals through two periods. It took a superb shot off a mini-breakaway generated by a defensive zone turnover to beat Jonas for the game-winner and end the Harvard season...
...string, is a good place to lunch. The cafe's player piano will entertain small fry, and the food will please the grownups. True Toole aficionados will buy a hot dog on the street in homage to Reilly's brief, catastrophic career as a vendor of frankfurters made of "rubber, cereal, tripe. Who knows...