Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, gases react at the surface of a hot tungsten wire. This led him directly to the invention of the gas-filled incandecent lamp which saves U. S. users of electricity, according to estimates. $1.000,000 a night. The same concept led to his creating almost complete vacuums in thermionic tubes. To do this he was obliged to design a new powerful mercury pump. Result is cheap, highly efficient vacuum tubes for radio, and long distance telephony. Another result was Dr. Coolidge's perfection of dependable x-ray tubes and his design of tandem x-ray', tubes whose...
...Commercial illustrator in New York for four years, drawing full-length portraits of vacuum cleaners and canned soup...
Pure Oil. Shell, Consolidated, Texas and Gulf. White Eagle and Magnolia, subsidiaries of Socony-Vacuum, fell in line. The directors of the American Petroleum Institute, meeting in Excelsior Springs, Mo., expressed their approval. But the industry's spirit was dampened when Standard of New Jersey remained ominously silent and Standard of Indiana came out with the flat announcement : ''Conditions do not warrant even the present prices. . . . The Indiana company is sincerely desirous of seeing producers receive a satisfactory price for crude. But it is convinced that an advance in the face of present conditions would simply provide...
Share-Work Spread. The boss of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and the boss of Socony-Vacuum Corp. did not agree last week on the crude oil price situation. But they did agree on the merits of the five-day week. New Jersey's Walter Clark Teagle, as head of the National Coordination Committee, has campaigned since August on the subject. Companies which have supported him and put their employees on the five-day schedule have included, besides his own. General Motors Corp.. Procter & Gamble Co., New York Daily News, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. A total...
...machine converting sewage into methane gas to provide the house's light and power. Air will be conditioned, making bedclothes unnecessary. All machinery will fit into the central duraluminum mast. The bed pneumatic, the closets full of revolving shelves, the walls transparent but windowless, the cooking done by vacuum mazda units, dishwashing and laundry done mechanically in three minutes, all doors opening at the wave of a hand before photoelectric cells, the dymaxion house tries to do everything directly and independently. It can be planted anywhere, regardless of water, sewage, gas or electricity supply lines...