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...second test is for bouquet. Each member warms his glass by rolling it around in the palm of his hands, thus volatizing the wine more quickly. Then the tester dips his nose into the glass to the level of the wine and breathes in deeply. He meditates for a moment and attempts to describe the bouquet. He may have to repeat the process a number of times before he can come out with a suitable adjective, such as flowery, chalky, flinty, sour, or maybe just plain grape. Although preferring imaginative words, the members try to avoid such phrases...
Consisting of three parts, the last test determines taste. The first part is the initial impact on the tongue and lips, with the tester taking a tiny sip and describing it as puckering, earthy, or acidic...
...General Services Administration, Department of Buildings Management. Naturally, the situation called for a survey. That called for special equipment. So the matter was referred to the National Bureau of Standards, Division of Research and Development. There a machine was built, and labeled "Sigler Pendulum Impact Type Slipperiness Tester...
...sits in the president's chair and runs all this started out to be a chemist. Later George Stoddard switched to psychology, went to the University of Paris in 1921 and got fascinated by the work of the famous Alfred Binet (intelligence tests). It was as a tester and child psychologist, at the University of Iowa, that Stoddard made his first reputation. In 1942 he switched again, to administration. Before Illinois summoned him to the $20,000-a-year president's job, he was a dean at Iowa and, for four wartime years, New York State...
...father was a blacksmith), he won scholarships to Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology and Ohio's Miami University, later a teaching fellowship to Yale. He worked summers as a helper in one of C.E.I.'s boiler plants, got a full-time job as a "junior tester" in 1926. Within a year he became a production engineer, later moved up as an assistant to C.E.I.'s President Eben Crawford, stepped into his shoes (and an $80,000 salary) at Crawford's death...