Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another great maker of such devices, and a great friend of the hard of hearing, is George Barton French, railroad authority once affiliated with the Export Department of J. P. Morgan & Co. His devices are small and portable. He sells them cheaply, will sell them more cheaply when he makes them in greater quantities. With one of his devices the speaker places the transmitter against any part of his head or throat; ensuing sounds are louder than if he spoke into the transmitter. A deaf person can put the receiver to any part of his skull or spine, and hear...
Seated in a steel sphere Explorer Beebe and Otis Barton, inventor, dropped 1,426 ft. into the sea, 1,076 ft. deeper than the record. On the sphere's outer surface was fastened a dead fish. Through thick windows of fused quartz the divers could peer out at deep sea creatures, lured near by the fish bait, never before seen by man in their natural state. So great was the depth that only the blue and violet rays of the sun's spectrum penetrated, yet the submarine scene seemed brilliantly lighted compared to the gloom of the diving...
Inventor Otis Barton-Harvard graduate (1922), onetime Paris art student, African big game hunter-last year de-signed and built a diving ball which proved too heavy for any practical hoisting equipment. The present, successful model weighs two tons. The diving "bell" de-signed and operated in the Mediterranean with some success by Inventor Hans Hartman (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added...
Although the article is not exactly comforting to the men that fall in this category because of their indecision, it, however, points out that Time is one of the most powerful allies on the side of youth and that even those who suffer from this mania that Mr. Barton describes can succeed. Also to those who cannot find their proper business there is the phrase, "to every man who really gives his best, his own business is the most exciting and satisfying in the world...
...Barton discusses from a new angle the "after graduation--what?" question and it is encouraging to see a modern business philosopher who has himself interviewed many college men take the attitude that he does...