How to pronounce “whitt” in English

Whittingham later said, "I went in there and explained it, five minutes, 10 minutes at the most, and within a week they said yes,

Whittingham's design used pure lithium, which worked brilliantly, until it didn't.

Whittingham published his design in 1976, and Exxon licensed the patent to a few manufacturers, but with no funding and no momentum,

Whittling, I've really got in to making -- this branch that fell off of a tree, I started making spoons and different implements out of it; carved, carved them.

whittle down to about a quarter of that.

But Whittle's prototype had two major flaws.

Now Whittingham just had to decide which ions to use.

What Whittingham had created here was a rechargeable battery, one that worked reliably cycle after cycle with incredible consistency.

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The material Whittingham chose for the cathode, titanium disulfide, capped the cell at just 2.4 volts, but Goodenough believed that with a better cathode material, he could do better.

Even though we whittleled them down by 80%, we couldn't get that last 15 or

I got whittled down to the top 12, went to New York, competed, and won first place in the entire United States.

And I started whittling them down.

And they whittle them down in a series of medical tests which are truly horrific.

How did you whittle it down to the ones, the fine ones that got chosen for it?

I kept whittling it down.

And I had to whittle it all down.

It's called whittling. And I have really used bits and pieces, that they tell me that I like to manipulate,

just the process of whittling down all the typos and things, and the first printing had 26, but it took three months just

Then we whittled them down.

I was educated at Whittier College in Whittier, California.

Then we whittled that down to 132.

We've whittled down the team that supports pushing those 300 changes a day down to aspectively two people.

We would be Dick Whittington and his cat, I knew.

And I have whittled down the traits of a successful CEO to seven basic attributes.

we started whittling it away for what things uh would work well uh together um

The doctors were also whittled down, from about 32 to 9, about by 80%.

The clinical staff was whittled down by about 30%.

When a colleague excitedly told Whittle, "Frank, it flies," he dryly quipped, "That was bloody well what it was designed to do, wasn't it?"

And this is exactly the problem Whittingham was trying to solve.

And so I wanted to really just whittle this down to the basics.

about the world and they gradually Whitted away my

So that's what we're whittling down to.

So it was just a process of whittling down to the major things that I wanted to do and then researching intensely those specific things

And they really try to whittle it down.

But the complicated part is whittling it down, and figuring, what is the most important data point that's going to tell us that we're successful?

It was designed by British pilot and engineer Frank Whittle.

So suddenly, Whittingham's side project became a top priority.

- So, Whittingham had to switch out the water-based electrolyte for something else, and that change unlocked the possibility of higher voltages.

- For all its promise, Whittingham's battery was just too dangerous, and then the oil crisis ended.

Fortunately, a copy of Whittingham's paper made it across the Atlantic to Oxford University in England, where it caught the attention of John B. Goodenough,

In 2019, Whittingham, Goodenough and Yoshino finally received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for an invention that in the committee's words "Revolutionized our way of life."

It's time to stop adding more stuff and start to whittle it down.

Right? And they slowly whittled it down and whittled it down.

the numbers in gross form so by the time it's whittled down to their recruiting class, that they have the people they need and want.

you have much more possible choices but always whittled down for you.

And it was first climbed by the United States by Jim Whittaker on the 1st of May, 1963, along with Nawang Gumbu, his Sherpa partner on that.

They had a list of 30 that was whittled down to 8, that was whittled down to 6.