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T H E JOURNAL OF I N D U S T R I A L A N D ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
Vol. 14, No. 8
Personals
Industrials
The Franklin Institute has awarded to Prof. Eugene C. Bingham of Lafayette College its Certificate of Merit for his Improved Variable Pressure Viscometer. -Dr. Robert Calvert, formerly a laboratory director for E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., and later of the University of Southern California, is now employed by the Celite Products Co., as research engineer in charge of their laboratory a t Lompoc, Cal. Dr. Paul M. Giesy, formerly with the Calco Chemical Co., Bound Brook, N. J., is now research chemist with E. R. Squibb & Sons, a t their Brooklyn plant. Mr. Arthur Grounds, formerly chief chemist to the Sun Co., Ltd., Swansea, is now associated as consulting chemist with Mr. Harold Moore in Manchester, England. Mr. Henry W. Hess, consulting chemist of Toledo, specializing in the glass industry and in the adaptation of special fuels to special purposes, has gone to England on an important problem relative to the production of the Osram lamp. At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Air Reduction Co. ,Inc., Dr. Floyd J. Metzger was elected vice president in charge of research and development. Mr. E. A. Wilson, director of the Pyralin Research Laboratory of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., is resigning t o engage in the practice of chemical engineering. Dr. J. W. Turrentine, formerly director of the Experimental Kelp-Potash Plant of the U. S. Department of Agriculture a t Summerland, Calif., has obtained furlough from the Department for a period of six months to act as consulting chemist for the U. S. Kelp Products Corporation, the newly organized concern which has purchased the government’s plant and is now proceeding with the manufacture of kelp products. Mr. C. E. Betz has been appointed chief chemist of the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory. Mr. Mercer B. Mayfield, Jr., is to succeed Mr. Betz as chemist-in-charge of the New York Laboratory of the company. Dr. Elbert C. Lathrop has severed his connection with E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del., to become vice president and treasurer of Samuel P. Sadtler & Son, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Lathrop will devote his entire time to consulting work and to the study of industrial engineering problems. Mr. R. E. Zimmerman, formerly director of the research laboratory of the American Sheet & Tin Plate Co., has been made assistant to the vice president. Mr. J. W. Whetzel, formerly research associate, has been appointed manager of the research laboratory, and Mr. E. S. Taylerson, formerly physicist, is now assistant director. Mr. Theodore F. Bradley has left the Sherwin-Williams Campany to become chemist for the Mica Insulator Co., Schenectady, N. Y . Mr. T. G . Greaves has resigned his position as chemist of the American Dyewood Company’s Mobile, Ala., plant to become chemist of the International Cotton Protecting Co., Mobile. Mr. R. L. Howard, associate professor of chemistry in the Medical College of Virginia, has been awarded the Research Fellowship in Pharmacology a t Western Reserve University. Dr. G. F. Reddish has been elected associate professor of bacteriology a t the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Paul A. Warren has been elected professor of botany, School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia. Mr. G . G . Crewson has resigned the plant managership of the Refractory Products Corporation plant a t Index, Va., to become associated with the engineering staff of the National Aniline & Chemical Co., Buffalo, N. Y . Mr. Austin Bailey has resigned his position as assistant professor of physics in Kansas University to accept a position in the Radio Department of the American Telebhone & Telegraph Co., New York City. Mr. C. W. Crowell has resigned as chemist of the California & Hawaiian Sugar Company to accept a position as superintendent of the Rochester Germicide Co., Rochester, N. Y .
A research fellowship of $1000 for the study of the chemistry of the tubercle bacillus has been given to Yale University by the National Tuberculosis Association. The funds will be used to support research in the subject now being conducted by Prof. Treat B. Johnson and Dr. E. B. Brown.
Prof. Charles S. Bisson has left the South Dakota School of Mines to take charge of the Department of Chemistry a t the Northern Branch of the Univel‘sity of California, Davis, Calif.
E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company announce that they have developed and placed on the market a new dye to be known as Pontachrome Brown SW, which may be used on woolen goods, either as a self shade for producing full rich browns or as base for the production of a pleasing range of dark brown shades, and which is especially suitable for suitings containing unresisted silk effects. At a meeting of the directors of the Heyden Chemical Company of America, held June 27, the following officers were elected: President, Bernard R. Armour; vice president, James Branegan; chairman of the board, Ffederick Chamberlain; directors, Bernard R. Armour, George I,. Armour, James Branegan, William Weckman, S. S. Theil, and Mr. Smith. While in 1912 about 2,500,000 lbs. of artificial silk were used in this country, nearly 20,000,000 lbs. were used in 1921. The domestic production of this material increased from almost nothing in 1910 to nearly 20,000,000 lbs. in 1921, or about 50 per cent as much as the total consumption of natural silk for the same year. Before 1915 over 75 per cent of the artificial silk was used in the manufacture of hosiery, while now only about 40 per cent is so used.. The Combustion Engineering Corporation has issued in pamphlet form a paper on “Powdered Coal Application to Four 2640-H. P. Boilers,” which was presented before the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania in 1921 by H. D. Savage. The Electric Furnace Construction Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., has announced the appointment of the following officers: President, Frank Hodson; vice president and treasurer, P. H. Falter; vice president and counsel, Arthur G. Dickson; new directors, John Gilbert, Wm. A. Webb, and T. H. Weisenburg. The Swenson Evaporator Company has become a subsidiary of the Whiting Corporation of Harvey, Ill. The Nordmont Chemical Co., Nordmont, Pa., manufacturer of charcoal, wood alcohol, and by-products, has been sold, and is t o be dismantled as soon as the supply of chemical wood on hand has been exhausted. The National Aniline & Chemical Co., Inc., has just issued its customary booklet of Dyer’s Formulas for the fall season shade card, issued by the Textile Color Card Association. Formulas are given for dyeing on skein silk under each one of the same established by the Association, and following this a similar treatment is given the formulas for dyeing cotton, this being divided into three methods: for light shades secured by direct dyes on cotton, for medium and dark shades secured by direct dyes on cotton, and for basic dyes on cotton with tannic acid. Acid colors on wool and chrome dyes on wool are next treated, as well as leather dyeing in two methods, uiz., one for dyeing 100 lbs. of chrome tanned leather, and the other for dyeing 100 sq. f t . of vegetable tanned leather. The Brown Instrument Co., Philadelphia, Pa., has published a new resistance thermometer catalog, which explains the theory of resistance thermometry, the various types of instruments which are made, the merits of each type, and the field covered by these instruments, I t is claimed that for installation where extreme accuracy is required within a very small range of temperature, the electrical resistance thermometer is the best instrument. yet produced. The Schutte & Koerting Co., Philadelphia, Pa., has issued a new catalog describing mechanical fuel oil burning systems and fuel oil burners in which the oil is atomized by low or high pressure air and steam. It discusses the installations, operation and maintenance of oil burning equipment, its characteristics, requirements and functions, the relative merits of mechanical and spray oil burners, the design, purpose and operation of air control registers, oil pumping outfits, duplex oil strainers and fuel oil heaters, the general requirements of steam boiler furnaces for burning oil, operation and inspection of the system, lighting the fires, air for combustion, indication of satisfactory operation, number and arrangement of burners, effects of carbon deposits and soot, etc.
