Word: siemenses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milwaukee's employment agency is a dark draftsman named Eugene J. Buerk. Nazi Buerk's wife is sick at home, so he interviews applicants at the Highland Cafe (see cut, p. 15). He talks to as many as 100 per day, prefers skilled mechanics and machinists, particularly in...
From Berlin last week came news that technicians of Siemens & Halske Co. had developed a ''super-microscope" with a magnifying power far surpassing that of ordinary high-grade instruments. To obtain its supermagnification, the German instrument uses beams of electrons instead of waves of light.
Electrons make impressions on photographic emulsions just as light particles do. Using a magnification factor of 20,400, the Siemens & Halske scientists obtained pictures of the pus germ, Staphylococcus aureus, as big as pennies. In photographs with ordinary high-power microscopes, such germs show up pinhead-size.
"It is most gratifying," boomed the Spanish manager of Bilbao's largely German-owned Siemens electric works who had skipped to the mountains for a few days while the city was taken. "Most gratifying! On returning to my office this morning, I find everything just as before." Undamaged too...
Heavy Neon. Isotopes are forms of the same element having different atomic weights. Most famed isotope is "heavy hydrogen" for which Columbia's Harold Clayton Urey won last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Gustav Hertz of Berlin's Siemens Engineering Works told how he extracted...