Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basement of the new laboratory, will be rooms for high-pressure experimentation, for x-ray apparatus, and for research in high frequency and vacuum tubes. Beneath this will be a sub-basement where there will be a special x-ray work-room sheathed in lead to prevent the filteration of the rays into photographic appliances or other aparatus that they would harmfully affect. The basment is to be equipped with double walls which will prevent outside disturbances from affecting the extremely delicate measurements essential to research. Rooms will be sound proof and of constant temperature. A huge, 100,000 volt...
...another in polite whispers, Georges Claude explained the process to them. Great pumps are used to suck up cold water, 40º F., through a mile-long tube from the bottom of Matanzas Bay. Warm surface water, 80º F., rushes through other pipes into a large vacuum tank. When a liquid is kept under low pressure, it will boil at temperatures much lower than 212º F. The pressure in the vacuum tank, Dr. Claude explained, is low enough to cause the 80º surface water to boil, give off steam. When he finished his explanation, he pressed...
...which lends a greenish color. The results are tested twice daily by comparing a test-tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition the floor of the tank will be periodically subjected to the suction of a large curry comb, connected by a hose to the vacuum end of the pumps...
Died. Charles E. Bedford Jr., 30, son of Vice President Bedford of the Vacuum Oil Co.; by his own hand, in a dollar-a-night Brooklyn hotel. When only 19, Bedford came home from the War mentally sick. The same year he stole a car to escape from a physician, went to gaol in Indiana, later to a New York asylum from which he ran away. Ashamed to go home, although his family used every possible persuasion, he wandered, hid himself in crowds, spent the past five years in Brooklyn slums...
...Drinker Respirator, invented by Dr. Philip Drinker of the Harvard School of Public Health, is a mechanical aid to breathing. It is a large casket into which the body of a patient with respiratory paralysis can be inserted. His head extends into the open air. A motor creates a vacuum in the respirator causing the chest to expand. Consequently stimulating oxygen and carbon dioxide may be sucked into the patient's lungs. When the respirator's vacuum is filled with air, the patient's lungs collapse, expelling their vitiated gases. Persistent repetition of this process often sustains...