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Antique Shaded (1914, Benton), cut on a new shading machine invented by Linn Boyd Benton. Balloon series (1939, Max R. Kaufmann), originally as Speedball. Balloon Light (Kaufmann) Balloon Bold (Kaufmann) Balloon Extrabold (Kaufmann) Bank Gothic series. Bank Gothic Light (1930, Benton) Bank Gothic Medium (1932, Benton) Bank Gothic Bold (1932 ...
In the early 1970s, National Foam, Inc. invented alcohol-resistant AFFF technology. AR-AFFF is a synthetic foam developed for both hydrocarbon and polar-solvent materials. Polar solvents are combustible liquids that destroy conventional fire-fighting foam.
Century Schoolbook (1918), commissioned by textbook publishers Ginn & Company for maximum legibility. Century Schoolbook Italic (1921) Century Schoolbook Bold (1923) Globe Gothic (c. 1900), a refinement of Taylor Gothic, designed by ATF vice-president Joseph W. Phinney in 1897 for Charles H. Taylor for the exclusive use of the Boston Globe. [1]
AFFF was developed in the 1960s under Project Light Water in a joint venture between 3M and the U.S. Navy. AFFF forms a film that floats out before the foam blanket, sealing the surface and smothering the fire by excluding oxygen. AFFF is widely used for ARFF firefighting at airports, often in conjunction with purple-K dry chemical.
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Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.
1883: The Yellow Pages are invented. The business listings directory got its iconic look by accident in 1883 when a Cheyenne, Wyoming, printer ran out of white paper and made do with yellow paper ...
1967 In the wake of the 1967 USS Forrestal fire, which happened off the coast of north Vietnam—"one of the worst disasters in U.S. naval history"—in which 134 people were killed and the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier was almost destroyed, the US Navy began to make it mandatory for its vessels to carry Aqueous Film Forming Foams (AFFF) on board ...