Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...putting the patients in tanks filled with air under pressure. Mr. Timken has spent $165,000 for a ten-acre plot of land on the Lake Erie shore at Cleveland's eastern limits and, last week, had agents apply for a building permit to construct the first steel tank, to be 64 feet in diameter and the equivalent of five stories high. Inside will be airtight chambers to contain compressed air, like the treatment tank that Dr. Cunningham has had operating in Kansas City for eight years...
Died. Charles Frederick Rand, 70, famed engineer, onetime President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; onetime Chairman of the Engineering Foundation; near West Orange, N. J. He was one of three engineers honored by membership in the "Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain," was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French Government in 1921, was decorated by Alfonso XIII of Spain...
Died. Judge James Hay Reed, 73, father of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania; in Pittsburgh. Judge Reed was an organizer of the U. S. Steel Corp.; was a onetime law partner of the late Philander Chase Knox (U. S. Secretary of State under President Taft and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania...
...rays ordinarily used. A ring, on an x-ray photograph, is opaque, although the flesh of the finger is transparent. However, Professor George L. Clark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who established the first laboratory for applying x-rays to industry, showed the testers how he detected flaws in steel four-inches thick...
Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.) Eugene Gifford Grace, president Bethlehem Steel Corp. D. Eng William David Coolidge, scientist D. Sc. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor...