Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High point of the convention was when President Moses Gomberg of the Society gave Professor Linus Carl Pauling of California Institute of Technology a certificate and $ 1,000 for being the most promising young chemist in the country and President Frank Jerome Tone of Carborundum Co. a gold medal for being a fine type of manufacturer (TIME, Aug. 31). President Tone had only to say "Thank you." but Professor Pauling was obliged to deliver a long and learned exposition on ''The Structure of Crystals and the Nature of the Chemical Bond." President Gomberg listened raptly. For young Professor Pauling...
...electrical apparatus for the standard piano sounding-board. The electrical engineering is the work of Walther Nernst, German physicist: electrical equipment by Siemens & Halske A. G.; pianobuilding by C. Bechstein. "Claviphone" is one of the names suggested for it. Principle is. simply, that microphones pick up the vibrations, fundamental tones and overtones of the strings and transmit them to a loudspeaker. Encased in a box of standard shape but small size (4 ft. 7 in. long-a concert grand piano is 9 ft. long), the strings are stretched in radiating groups of five instead of the usual criss-cross pattern...
This year Jacob Fred Schoellkopf, Buffalo power and dye tycoon, contributed a gold medal, named for his late father, to honor important industrial research. First Schoellkopf medalist, named last week, is President Frank Jerome Tone, 63, of Carborundum Co., who helped develop that and other synthetic abrasives, who originated the first commercial process for producing silicon metal (used in electrical transformers, alloys, hydrogen manufacture), who possesses "to an unusual degree the rare combination of the qualities of the pure scientist, the plant engineer, and the successful business administrator." Graduates of Hill School and Cornell of six or seven years...
...picture, without much perspective, and certainly with little or no depth. . . . In broadcasting we have neither sight nor memory to suggest where sounds originate, and it must be obvious that the blend of, say, woodwind and strings immediately in front of the microphone is very different from the combined tone if they are placed 20 ft. from each other and from the microphone...
...Surprisingly good," said many a banker last week after inspecting the reports which told of U. S. Industry's struggle to eke profits out of Depression. Although the first half-year was marked by further profit shrinkage, the general tone of the reports indicated that most companies have the situation in hand, are busy effecting economies which will make profits bigger when business revives...