Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hopkins showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum off an electric coil so that the aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins Dr. Wood used the same method for laying down on his plates first a thin coat of hard chromium, then a layer of soft aluminum. To make diffraction gratings...
...ornamental mantel vase, urn or basin" suspended close to the ceiling by chains. Immediately above the ice a hole was made in the ceiling. Into this was fitted a pipe which led through the floor above to the chimney. Air contracting around the cold ice created a partial vacuum which sucked outside air from the chimney. This blew over the ice, spilled down around the room, cooled the patient's fever...
Last week Texas Corp.'s Chairman Torkild Rieber confirmed reports that Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. and Texas Corp. were jointly negotiating with Gulf. Said Mr. Rieber: "Socony-Vacuum and the Texas Corp. will participate equally in this purchase and will proceed at once with the exploration and development of the territory...
...Saint Joseph, Mich., when Alfred Zuhl, 11, pedaled too close to a vacuum street sweeper, he and his bicycle were whisked up. sucked into the dust container. Hastily mechanics took the sweeper apart, found the bicycle wrecked, Alfred Zuhl gasping but unhurt. Demanded Alfred Zuhl: "Where...
...liberalized the rich orphanage along its present lines. Nowadays, when Girard boys graduate, most have learned a trade, go straight to work. And some go to the top of their professions; e. g., President William H. Kingsley of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., President John Albert Brown of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., famed Landscape Architect John Nolen...