Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked in the shop helping make exhaust manifolds for plane engines. He often delivered the manifolds in his car, then raced back, cash in hand, to meet his tiny payroll. To make ends meet, he turned out frying pans, book ends and metal panels for trucks. But when stainless steel was developed in the early '30s, Solar was the first to use it for exhaust manifolds, by 1933 bagged $80,000 worth of contracts and began to climb...
...problem does not faze Allegheny Ludlum's Chairman Hiland G. Batcheller. As the world's biggest producer of stainless steel (210 million Ibs. shipped last year), his company has long had its eye on titanium. When National Lead, the biggest U.S. supplier of titanium ore, suggested a partnership two years ago, Batcheller jumped at the chance. Their co-owned subsidiary, using Allegheny-Ludlum's mills, has already been processing small quantities of the metal. But total production-including that of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.-this year will be only 500 tons. And the average...
...best-known wind tunnels are vast, bellowing monsters that soak up the local power supply and drive the neighbors nuts. Last week Dr. Richard G. Folsom of the University of California described a quieter and trickier tunnel. Built with Navy and Air Force funds, it is a stainless steel tube only 5 ft. long and 18 in. in diameter. Its purpose: to simulate aerodynamic conditions near the earth's outer frontier-the atmosphere 50 miles...
...simulate these peculiar conditions, California scientists use a peculiar apparatus: a "molecular beam" developed by Physicist Franklin C. Hurlbut. First, all possible air is pumped from the stainless steel tube (which takes a week of pumping). At one end of the tube is a small "source chamber" containing nitrogen gas. When this is heated by a furnace, the nitrogen molecules pick up kinetic energy and zigzag through the chamber at great speed. Those that happen to be shooting in the right direction pass through a hole one-fiftieth of an inch in diameter that leads to the evacuated tube...
...developed by Dairy Expert Roy R. Graves, 64, who spent 28 years in the Department of Agriculture, and John Stambaugh, a Chicago businessman and gentleman farmer. On Stambaugh's Wood-Jon farm in Valparaiso, Ind., Graves made a machine that pumps milk straight from the cow into a stainless steel vacuum tank without letting the milk come in contact with the bacteria-laden...