Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...geratest problems," said Doctor Hopkins, "which the American college faces in the present day is to preserve its function as an educational institution to an extent that shall give its men the proper outlook on life and shall steel their wills and harden their minds against the tendencies toward materialism which are bred in a period of so great economic surplus as is the present period in America...
Standing near the inventor, enjoying the delight and bewilderment of newsmongers, was Isaac W. Heyman, rich steel manufacturer, who had offered $250,000 for making copies of J.G. Larsson's device and then disposing of them. He explained that the inventor was in the U.S. to demonstrate his invention so that telephone companies might use it as standard equipment: he pointed out that in Sweden, whence Inventor Larsson had come and where he lives, Inventor Larsson's device has been demonstrated and found good by government engineers...
Died. Joseph Green Butler Jr., 87, a creator of the Mahoning Valley steel industry; at Youngstown, Ohio. Iron and steel men called him "Uncle Joe." President McKinley had called him friend; they had attended village school together in Niles, Ohio...
...Steel pens, made to slip into a holder, were a 19th Century development, although some experiments occured before. Scientist Joseph Priestly, in 1780, designed and ordered made a steel pen that resembled a quill, just as anciently the quill imitated the reed. Birmingham, Eng., became the home of the steel pen; it continues so. In the U. S. Camden, N. J., where the Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co. was established in 1860, has been the great center...
...these pens, from marsh grass to steel, must be dipped repeatedly into ink reservoirs. How well it would be, men early reflected, to have an ink reservoir attached to the pen. Many were the experiments during the past 100 years to do so; many the failures. About 50 years ago, Lewis E. Waterman succeeded. The hard-rubber barrels of his early pens were made in two sections screwed together. Mr. Waterman furnished medicine droppers with those early pens...