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one of the large construction buildings where Farnsworth has been busy [[red underline]] for eight years developing [[/red underline]] the electric rectifier idea of [[red underline]] Cooper Hewitt so as to replace [[/red underline]] the bulky rotary transformers 
His rectifier instead of being made of glass seems externally an iron cylinder probably coated inside. Was told that cylinder about 2 or 3 feet diam and about as high [[strikethrough]] corresponds to [[/strikethrough]] does same work as rotary transformer of about 1000 Kilowatts!
Evening had to give address to [[red underline]] Pittsburgh Section of Am. Chemical Society. [[/red underline]] This clumsy [[red underline]] Dr. Stahl a blundering german [[/red underline]] who has never learned yet to talk straight
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happens to be chairman. He is an avowed [[red underline]] pro-german [[/red underline]] but he was very friendly and took me to the meeting which was held in [[red underline]] the German Club [[/red underline]] a regular [[red underline]] Sauerkraut institution [[/red underline]] with germans [[strikethrough]] int [[/strikethrough]] [[chuck?]] full of beer and cultur and sausages [[red underline]] and turned up moustaches. [[/red underline]] Some of them had been invited to the meeting and to the dinner which preceded it. At dinner a young american told in informal way his recent [[red underline]] experience in Germany [[/red underline]] Fortunately americans were in [[red underline]] decided majority. [[/red underline]] I spoke about Naval Board its work and problems of national preparedness. [[red underline]] Horace Porter of Koppers Co. [[/red underline]] a bye product Coke oven engineering concern raised some friendly discussion. I was 
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"cultur" may refer to "Kulturkampf," a term usedI to describe the German ideals that would spread across the globe after Germany won the war.