Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...number of courses. We often overlook the fact that certain students are able to obtain all they need from particular courses in a very short time and that they progress at different raies of speed in their college work. We have not yet explored the possibilities of the examining process as a means of individualizing the work of our more able students...
...Saunders found a good reason why violinists prefer to play the old instruments. The reason: they are easier to play. Through some mysterious process inherent in aging, the violin becomes mechanically more responsive-it begins to "speak" a fraction of a second sooner when force is applied to the strings. Dr. Saunders experimented with a motor-operated machine which bowed the violins by elastic celluloid disks in such a way that the force required to produce a singing tone could be measured. In the old violins the force required was slightly less...
Lately they have eyed offset printing, a lithographic process used mostly for reproducing pictures. Offset is cheap because it does away with engraving, form makeup, stereotyping-all standard processes on a daily paper. The printer simply photographs a page of copy pasted up on ruled boards, transfers the negative to a zinc plate, prints from an inked rubber roller...
...last week, climbed a seamy-faced, balding Philadelphia chemist named William Peacock. He was on his first vacation in ten years and he figured he had it coming to him. For since his last holidays Chemist Peacock had tried thousands of formulas to modernize Liebig's process, and he had finally succeeded. Before he left his one-story Colonial laboratory on Philadelphia's Main Line his process was in use in three big mirror plants (Nurre; Binswanger & Co.; Hires Turner), and he had visions of some day putting a full-length mirror on every bedroom door...
...years after he left the U. S. Navy in 1919, Chemist Peacock worked unsuccessfully on a process to prevent tarnishing of silverware. He became the only mirror consultant in the U. S. ten years ago, when Hires Turner called him in to see what was wrong with its silvering solution. Amazed was William Peacock at pitcher-pouring. So he went to work on a new process, managed to support his Peacock Laboratories meanwhile by supplying advice, standardized silvering solution, special rubber gloves and other mirror-making accessories to the trade. Near last year's end he found the answer...