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S Dushman. Scientific Foundations of Vacuum Technique. 2nd ed. Revised by members of the research staff at General Electric Research Laboratory (JM Lafferty, ed.). New York Wiley, 1962. 

J. H. Westbrook, Flow in Rock-salt Structures , General Electric Research Laboratory Report 58-RL-2033 (1958), not published. 

General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, New York... 

Starting about 1911 and extending to about 1935, Langmuir and his associates at the General Electric Research Laboratories published a long series of important articles on adsorption phenomena on metal surfaces at comparatively low gas pressures (20,21). This work has not only... 

II. Ivantsov, G. P., Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 58, 567 (1947) (Mathematical Physics) translated by G. Horvay, Report No. 60-RL-(251lM), General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, New York, 1960. 

J. J. Gilman General Electric Research Laboratories, Schenectady, N. Y. 

General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, N.Y. f Tonawanda Research Laboratory, Linde Air Products Company, Tona-wanda, N.Y. 

By February 15, 1955, diamonds had been produced in about 100 separate runs in the General Electric Research Laboratory. On this date a press conference was held and the fact that diamonds had finally been made by man was announced to the world. However, details concerning the synthesis were not released. On October 22, 1957, the company announced that diamond production had successfully been carried through the pilot plant stage—more than 100,000 carats (carat = 0.200 g) having been produced up to that time. Thus, less than three years following the successful conclusion of a 100-plus years search for a method to convert ordinary black carbon into diamond, man-made diamonds became a commercial product. Details of apparatus and methods of synthesis were finally released in the fall of 1959. 

Coble, Robert (Bob) L. (1928-1992) was best known for showing that small additions of MgO made it possible to form polycrystalline translucent alumina (Lucalox). This occurred while he was at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. He joined MIT in 1960. [More about this appears in the special alumina issue of J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 77(2), 1994.] He is also known for Coble creep. 

Shortly after the ruby laser came the first gas laser, developed in 1961 in a mixture of helium and neon gases by A. Javan, W. Bennett, and D. Herriott of Bell Laboratories. At the same laboratories, L. F. Johnson and K. Nassau first demonstrated the now well-known and high-power neodymium laser. This was followed in 1962 by the first semiconductor laser demonstrated by R. Hall at the General Electric Research Laboratories. In 1963, C. K. N. Patel of Bell Laboratories discovered the infrared carbon dioxide laser, which later became one of the most powerful lasers. Later that year A. Bloom and E. Bell of Spectra-Physics discovered the first ion laser, in mercury vapor. This was followed in 1964 by the argon ion laser developed by W. Bridges of Hughes Research... 

Answer by author This behavior is common with metals of high purity. In the case of titanium, recent investigations indicate that the operative modes of deformation are dependent upon purity level in addition to temperature. Similar results were also obtained by R. W. Guard of the General Electric Research Laboratory in his Report No. 55-RL-1339, July, 1955. 

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