Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible that some noxious thing in the tomb air or on TutankhAmen's mummy may have infected at least one or two men? No. Samples of the air taken in vacuum containers were found clean and pure. Howard Carter passed a swab over the mummy at the first opportunity, and no germs were detected on the swab. An 1,800-year-old mummy brought to the U. S. and examined for a month by the Rockefeller Institute's famed Alexis Carrel was pronounced absolutely sterile...
...discovered how to deposit 25,000,000 minuscule silver dots on a square inch of thin mica plate. Starlight falling on the silvered mica will be scanned by photoelectric cells, which will convert the image into feeble electric current, which in turn will be amplified tremendously by three-electrode vacuum tubes. The result will be a photograph clear enough to bring remote stars into Earth's "back yard...
...nearly 40 years. Some 120 of Charles Pratt's chil dren, grandchildren, their cousins, aunts, and in-laws assembled for buffet supper at the Manhattan home of Herbert Lee Pratt, one of Charles's five sons, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and Socony-Vacuum Corp. Among the guests: the George Dupont Pratts (art patron), the Frederic Bayley Pratts (president of famed Pratt Institute in Brooklyn), the Charles Pratts; George's Son Explorer Sherman; Charles's Son Banker Harold Irving: the late John's widow ex-Congresswoman Ruth. There were a huge...
...inanimate free will, with time no longer the placid ticking of a clock but a fourth dimension, the speed of light has remained a faithful standby. Ready to doubt almost everything else, 20th Century scientists have not doubted that light always travels at the same speed through a vacuum. Last week from a sunny California valley came shocking news that "that most fundamental constant" is apparently a variable. Nineteenth Century theorists supposed that light was propagated through space by an all-pervading ether. The late great Albert Abraham Michelson, first U. S. Nobel Prizewinner in Science, reasoned that if this...
...number of National City's loyal employes resigned. Reason: by leaving the employ of the bank before the stock was turned over to them they were entitled to receive back the full amount they had paid in on installment, plus interest. ¶Stockholders of Socony-Vacuum finally satisfied the proposed merger of their Far Eastern oil properties with those of Standard Oil (N. J.) (TIME, Aug. 21). Thus a new overseas empire came into being, stronger than the sum of its parts: whereas Socony-Vacuum had markets in the East but no production, and Standard Oil had production...