Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adams' battery consisted of a lightweight container, one electrode made of magnesium and another of cuprous chloride. It could be stored indefinitely and activated by simply pouring in fresh or salt water. While cooking up some cuprous chloride on his wife's stove, Adams accidentally dropped cigarette ashes...
Expert Accident. In wartime 1942, Adams decided that his revolutionary battery had all sorts of potential military uses. When he offered it to the Army, though, every available expert rejected his idea as unvoltaic and unworkable. Indeed, no one yet knows exactly why the Adams battery works. But without ever...
Adams got his patent in 1943; the Government got its own in 1953, based on the slight improvements of two army scientists. Adams finally got mad, and with the aid of an anonymous benefactor whom he credits with putting up $200,000 to fight the case, he went into the...
Another elusive scientist is the excuse given for The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World, the most flagrantly imitative spoof of the lot. Its second-best agent is played with studied respect by one Tom Adams, who vaguely resembles Sean Connery. The film sputters with genuine excitement...
Harvard's four entries are seniors Dinny Adams and Todd Wilkinson and sophomores Jose Gonzalez and Rick Sterne. The last Crimson player to win the intercollegiates was Vic Niederhoffer in 1964.