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Died. Baron Karl Auer von Welsbach, 72, famed Austrian scientist and inventor (Welsbach gas mantle); at his castle in Corinthia...
...prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps not quite a mile, but an awfully long grin, anyway. Just to show you what I mean, Old Lummy ("Arthur") Welsbach the cook is, at this moment, sticking toothpicks into potatoes to make little men out of them, little men which he will stand on the table as a joke to the crew when they come down to "grub," and the laugh that will greet this prank is as good...
...Manhattan last week the Electrical Refrigeration Show displayed the chief makes of electrically cooled refrigerators-Copeland, Iceberg, Kelvinator, Universal, Frigidaire, Icemaster, Rice, Wayne, General Electric, Iroquois, Welsbach...
...success" is literary rather than social. Sam Smith is more compelling, as a man than as a "message." And this is strange, for Author Norris writes with more purpose than distinction. Like William Dean Howells, dullness is dear to him. Yet out of a hazy, conventional reconstruction of the Welsbach-burner, balloon-sleeve, trust-forming era of U. S. life, Sam Smith achieves the form and force of actuality. He joins the great company of the memorably commonplace...
...most interesting of these collections is the case of graphite and clay in their crude forms. Here are shown the various stages in the manufacture of lead pencils, graphite, electrodes and lubricants. The materials are also displayed which illustrate the manufacture of the Welsbach light. Samples of the lighting fluid and the mantle dip, which renders the mantle incandescent, are shown, beside the cotton webbing in the mantle form before it is dipped in the solution of light-giving oxides...