Word: raye
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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General Electric Research Laboratories in Schenectady last week unveiled a giant new X-ray machine, 1,000,000 volts strong, the biggest X-ray machine harnessed to industrial research. It is intended to find flaws not in flesh & bone but in big steel castings. G. E.'s 400,000-volt apparatus took an hour to X-ray four inches of steel. The new machine takes less than two minutes...
...ray machine was centre-staged last week in a sedate jamboree marking the 40th anniversary of G. E.'s first research laboratory. Almost unheard of in 1900 were science laboratories as adjuncts and stimulants of manufacture. Charles Proteus Steinmetz and a G. E. patent lawyer persuaded Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr.-then technical director, later president-to found one. To start it Rice picked Willis Rodney Whitney, a brilliant and forceful young chemistry teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...took on the G. E. experiment as a full-time job. Things began to hum. The basic experiments of William Coolidge on tungsten, of Irving Langmuir on gas-filled (instead of evacuated) bulbs led to modern electric lamps. The Coolidge and Langmuir experiments also produced high-power X-ray tubes, portable X-ray sets, high-capacity electronic tubes...
Arise, My Love (Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Walter Abel; TIME...
...MYSTERY OF ELIZABETH CANNING-Barretf R. Wellington-J. Ray Peck...