Word: bridgman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Physics is conducting at the present time several researches of great importance. Professor William Duane '93 is studying X-rays and radio-active substances, with special reference to their treatment of malignant disease. Professor P. W. Bridgman '04 is carrying on an investigation of compressibilities and thermal conductivities which are of considerable use to the geologist Professor F. I. Chaffee 11 has been measuring for several years the electrical response of the retina to light stimulation, a subject which has an important relation to our knowledge of the mechanism of visitor...
...Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, to enable him to continue investigations on the properties of matter under high pressure...
Professor P. W. Bridgman '04 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory has recently perfected an apparatus for achieving the highest pressures that have ever been artificially produced...
...machine is worked purely by a hand pump, and is quite small, so small, in fact, that when some Dutch scientists were shown the arrangement, they asked. "But where is the machine?" On, various occasions Professor Bridgman has just missed losing a limb when the apparatus emploded, for the pressures seem to burst easily an inch thick wall of hardest metal. Professor Bridgman is still perfecting the arrangement and hopes to achieve pressures of 800,000 pounds per souare inch or even higher...
...points to close at 297½. Short, stubby, Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, Radio specialist, rumpled his red hair, blinked behind his glasses. Far away in Chicago, Arthur W. Cutten, bull operator in a dozen stocks, declared Montgomery Ward will reach 1,000. Grey-haired Gen. Oliver B. Bridgman stood at Post 2, noted U. S. Steel transactions in his book. They totaled 160,000 shares...