Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...developed a "molecular beam" consisting of a stream of molecules shot through a very fine slit into a vacuum tube. In the empty tube, each molecule traveled in a straight line. When it was subjected to a magnetic field, a molecule's magnetic "moment" or force could be gauged by the extent of its deflection from a straight course...
...general, their experiments sent small electrical impulses along isolated nerve strands (from frogs, etc..) and recorded the speed and volume of fiber responses. As the amounts of electricity involved were very small, the doctors devised a way of recording the impulses, using a cathode ray oscillograph (rays from a vacuum tube oscillated by an electrical or magnetic field) which made wavy lines on photographic paper...
Thousands of people in homes and in the streets felt the instant blast of furnace heat, blinked at the puzzling light. In a house a block from the tanks Mrs. Charles Flickinger plugged in her vacuum cleaner, and started back. At the same instant the walls glared red and the curtains caught fire. A surveyor stared at the towering flames, automatically sighted past a factory roof and a chimney and found the fire reached to 11½° above the horizon. He pulled out a slide rule and calculated its height-2,800 feet. Within minutes crowds of men, women...
...Also rejected: three U.S. companies, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. and Sinclair Oil Corp. They sought concessions in southwestern Iran...
...bird's-nest that is the State Department. Hoover's firm, United Engineering Corp., S.A., has been advising the oil-conscious Iranian Government on its oil policies since last June. By last week Teheran oil politics were gushing over. Three U.S. companies-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc. and Sinclair Oil Corp.-were seeking oil concessions from suave, car-mad Mohammed Shah Pahlavi in competition with the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., the only company operating in Iran. The Royal-Dutch Shell group was reported to be angling for similar concessions. And from Moscow...