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...biggest by far is the Uddeholm Co., which originally solved the one problem besetting ordinary stainless steel: sharpening it. An Uddeholm scientist 40 years ago devised a method for aligning the chromium particles into an even pattern so that the stainless blade could be honed as keenly as carbon steel. Uddeholm sold batches of that steel to Gillette in the 1930s, but stainless blades did not catch on because shavers found them irregular in quality. A sudden and tremendous demand began a year ago, after Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. brought out a blade coated with silicon plastic...
...original piano rolls were made through a technique perfected in 1904 by the famed German firm of M. Welte & Sohne. Special pianos were fitted with carbon rods extending downward from each key. As the keys were struck, the rods dipped into a tray of mercury, completing an electric circuit that controlled the pressure of an inked rubber wheel turning against a roll of tissue-thin paper. The wheel marked the paper faintly if the key was struck softly; fortissimos produced a wide mark because the force of the pianist's finger sank the carbon rod deeper in the mercury...
...company spent months experimenting before it was convinced that it could mass-produce stainless steel blades of uniform quality; the chrome carbide particles in stainless steel make it more difficult to sharpen than the carbon steel that is used in most razor blades. Gillette will produce its stainless blades in a new $10 million addition to its Boston plant, which is capable of producing more stainless blades in a week than the 7,000,000 exported to the U.S. by Wilkinson last year...
Pitch-Black Room. Even Honeywell's heating controls have become more sophisticated. In Detroit's Cobo Hall, a Honeywell control panel not only regulates air conditioning but also operates the public address system, lights and fire alarms and monitors the 1,800-car garage; whenever the carbon monoxide gets too strong, Honeywell's Data Center automatically turns on exhaust fans. Altogether Honeywell has installed some 1,000 such units, including two in Manhattan's massive Chase Manhattan Bank building. Last week the company signed a $100,000 contract for a distant and unusual control project...
...doors tight and turned on pure oxygen under pressure. Soon the baby and his squad of hovering attendants in an inner compartment were breathing almost pure oxygen at a pressure of three atmospheres. At this pressure, oxygen dissolves more readily into the fluid part of the blood (like carbon dioxide dissolving in water to make soda). The doctors hoped that this extra oxygen would ease the strain on the baby's heart, which was racing madly in an effort to distribute enough oxygen from his inefficient lungs. For a while, the technique seemed to be succeeding...