Word: carbonization
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Charcoal as a fuel substitute for gasoline in automobiles was demonstrated to be practicable by Imbert, a young French engineer, at Lyons. The charcoal is carried in the regular gasoline tank. It is ignited by a piece of burning waste, giving off a gas consisting largely of carbon monoxide, with azote, carbonic acid gas and hydrogen, which is drawn through a pipe to the carburetor. On the way it is cooled and freed from dust. In the carburetor the gas is mixed with air, as in a gasoline engine, whence it is drawn into the cylinders. To develop the same...
...Hills of Pittsburgh, have perfected a ventilating system which makes the tunnels safe for human beings with any volume of traffic. A procession of 200 auto trucks was run through the tunnels several times, and samples of air taken in the early tests showed 4½ to 10 parts of carbon monoxide present. Canaries, which are very sensitive to the gas, were released in the tunnels, and on the third test showed no ill effects...
...Professor William McDougall, the Oxford-Harvard psychologist), is in charge of desert laboratories at Tucson, Ariz., and Carmel, Calif., for discovering the processes by which plant life takes energy from the air and the sun. He aims to supplement both the food and the fuel supply eventually, by obtaining carbon from the atmosphere without waiting for the slow vegetable process...
Besides the protesting Cabots above mentioned, the following Cabots are named in the 1923 Who's, Who: Godfrey Lowell (Boston carbon magnate), Henry Bromfield (Boston lawyer and capitalist), Richard Clarke (Boston physician and Harvard professor), William Brooks (Boston engineer). There is also Philip Cabot, of Boston and Wall Street...
...diabetic patients. It was discovered by Dr. Max Kahn, associate in biological chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in collaboration with Dr. Ralph H. McKee, professor of chemical engineering at Columbia. "Intarvin," meaning "intermediate fat," is so named because one molecule of it contains 17 carbon atoms instead of the 16 or 18 usual in ordinary fats. This is the first successful commercial manufacture of a fat with an odd number of carbon atoms, and is hailed as a triumph of synthetic chemistry...