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...Schenectady, N. Y. Head of General Electric's standardizing laboratory since 1896, he became engineer-in-charge when it was merged in 1919 with the consulting laboratory which the late great Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz founded. Under Dr. Robinson's direction were brought out the oscillograph, the mercury arc rectifier, the photophone...
Professor DuMond's multiple crystal spectrometer lets physicists look at electrons. The machine consists of 50 spectroscopes arranged in an arc. A crystal is placed in the range of a device and then bombarded by X-rays. The X-rays batter electrons free of their atoms. The spectrometer reveals, not exactly the electrons themselves, but splashes of energy which represent the electrons...
...rigging and portholes, paring the hulls down to essential forms. He does landscapes of jagged tropical mountain ranges, coral-robed natives under tattered banana fronds, and the steel grey lattice work of cranes against a smoky sky. One of his most effective canvases, Trois Mats le Jeanne d'Arc, shows the trim white hull of the Joan of Arc moored at quayside, her three bare poles and spars standing out against lowering storm clouds. For these and other canvases modest Artist Mouillot expects no fancy prices. They may be had for from...
...born in Ontario approximately 40 years ago, one of the 15 children of prolific Thomas J. Lewis of Hamilton. An older sister was the indefatigable tragedienne Julia Arthur (Lewis) who was born four years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House and insisted on playing Joan of Arc...
...About 25 mi. from small Eldorado, Ohio. †Writer (books, magazine articles), poet (Lace Maker of Segovia), authority on Spanish and Spanish-American affairs, son of California's late great Collis Potter Huntington. His wife is Sculptress Anna Vaughan Hyatt Huntington (small bronzes, large Joans-of-Arc in half a dozen cities, flagpoles in Manhattan). *For his indefatigable daily despatches to the Times from Little America dramatizing the exploits of the Byrd Expedition, Correspondent Russell Owen received the 1930 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism...