Word: thermostatic
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...thermostat in each car maintains the precise heat which His Majesty, hardy, deems healthiest-namely 60 degrees...
Temperature, tinfoil. Into the merging pot were thrown two companies making devices to control temperature (Robert Shaw Thermostat Co., Fulton Sylphon Co.). two companies producing tinfoil (U. S. Foil Co., Beechnut Foil Co.). Reynolds Metal Co. emerged...
...home," declared President Harry C. Abell of the Association, "has ever been heated efficiently with coal. It is either hot, cold or indifferent." He predicted universal household heating by thermostat-regulated furnaces whose pilot lights would only need to be lighted in the autumn, turned off in spring...
John Spencer grew to years of discretion and mechanical knowledge. Re- cently, the U. S. Patent Office issued to him a basic patent for a new type of quick-acting thermostatic bimetal device.* Last week, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. obligated itself to him (according to report) to the extent of a million dollars for this patent. The Spencer Thermostat will now appear on a variety of electrical apparatus, chiefly irons, coffee-percolators, water-heaters...
Within the Spencer Thermostat, there will be a little disc of flexible metal. When an iron or percolator gets too hot, crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...