Word: teflon
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...between the main pumping chambers, the ventricles, was torn and consisted partly of dead tissue. A substantial part of each ventricle, to which the blood supply had been cut off by the shutdown of a coronary artery, was also dead or dying. Dr. Heimbecker repaired the septum with a Teflon patch. Then, as the dying muscle in the ventricle walls was interfering with the working of healthy muscle, he boldly decided to cut it out. He removed two pieces, each 3 in. by 2 in., one from each ventricle. The surgeon put nothing in their place, but closed the heart...
...Tastes & Teflon. Today, when weight watching is a national pastime, the gargantuan fare of yesteryear is hard to digest, even in imagination. First to use an element of scientific method in home cooking was Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, whose 1883 Boston Cook Book introduced accurate measurements, explained, for instance, that a piece of "butter the size of an egg" was equal to 2 oz., or one-fourth of a cup. But it remained for one of her students, Fannie Farmer, who borrowed freely (and without credit) from Mrs. Lincoln, to make her precepts into national guidelines with The Boston Cooking...
...World War II rationing. The postwar travel boom brought millions of U.S. tourists back from Europe with their tastes broadened and sharpened by what they had eaten there. At the same time, a host of kitchen aids, from dishwashers, pressure cookers, blenders and Deepfreeze units to the latest nonstick Teflon pans, were taking the drudgery out of cooking...
...peak in 1963, has now settled down to 5,000,000 yearly. To compensate for this leveling-off process, small-appliance makers compete fiercely with one another to bring out new products and improvements. This year half a dozen companies are introducing "salon-type" hair dryers on floor stands, Teflon is being used to coat just about everything from irons to coffee pots, and the long-established blender market has come alive again with the introduction of improved models by Waring, Oster, Ronson and Dormeyer. Miniature washers and dryers that take one shirt or pair of socks at a time...
...work of the illustrious surgeon DeBakey that was made by members of the staff of the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. Dr. Thomas Edman, chairman of the knitting department here at the college, played a significant role in the research and development of the knitted Dacron and Teflon arterial replacements. Dr. Edman is currently working on additional prosthetics that include heart valves and abdominal patches utilizing man-made fibers and knitting technology...