| Show the name am IS fa familiar liar BY FE FELIX ll 11 x B K M ANS an and d E ELMO lm SCOTT W WATSON A izing OR the fact that your adams 1 apple in danger of being squeezed out of shape by a tight collar after your shirt has been laundered a few times you can thank a 66 year old native of troy N Y sanford L cluett he was the inventor of a pre shrinking process ss which is used to treat one fifth of all the available fabrics in this country before they are made up into wearing apparel and which has added a new word to our everyday speech izing after the world war american men accustomed to khaki shirts sanford climett wanted to continue wearing soft collars but they shrank after washing and no purchaser knew how much shrinkage to expect shirt manufacturers had shrinking machines but they do the job completely and they had to allow three quarters of an inch for shrinkage in each collar the problem was to produce a uniformly shrunk fabric that would not change its size when given the average laundry wash in 1919 cluett a veteran of the spanish american war an engineer and an inventor with a number of patents to his credit joined the research department of the company of which his name is now a part after a long series of experiments he finally produced in 1928 1923 the process now known as izing and all those devoted to wearing shirts with soft collars breathed easier both figuratively and liter bunsen burner THAT HAT small gas burner the dentist has that makes thi things so hot so fast is called a bunsen burner it consists of a straight ight tube with small holes at the bottom where air enters and mixes with the gas the oxygen in the air causes the gas to burn with a hotter flame your gas stove works the same way there are air vents in the pipes that lead to the burners so that you are burning a mixture of gas and air otherwise you get much heat from the gas alone it really make much difference diff arence where the holes are placed along the pipe as long as they are this side of the meter va von bunsen but what we started out to say was this burner is named after robert wilhelm von bunsen a german chemist who was born in 1811 and died in 1899 he was a professor of chemistry at kassel in breslau and later at the famous university at heidelberg P S von bunsen invent the burner either a man by the name of peter desaga or the famous michael faraday did at least it is known that both of them used the same type of burner before von bunsen released by western newspaper News piper union |
