Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PERCY R. DAVIS
Wandering Mind. Those solutions work well, but not quite well enough for today's high-power equipment. At Sandia Corp. in Albuquerque, Physicist Richard L. Davis was busy trying to devise improvements. One day he let his mind wander and remembered an old mathematical parlor trick, the Mö...
Double Passage. Davis made a Möbius loop out of a strip of nonconducting plastic that had metal foil bonded to both sides to serve as an electrical resistance. He attached wires to the foil on opposite sides of the strip. When he sent electrical pulses through those wires...
Crime & Comedy. Formed in 1936 by devout Methodist J. Arthur Rank to make and exhibit wholesome family films, Rank faced a postwar crisis that sprang from a double source. For one, the British government in 1948 revoked prohibitive duties on foreign movies, and a stream of U.S. crime and comedy...
Explosive Performance. For Davis, 57, a jowly gentleman who moved up to chairman when Founder Rank retired two years ago, Rank's most spectacular sideline has been its entry into Xerox duplicating equipment. Searching for profitable ventures after the diversification decision, Davis in 1956 agreed to bankroll the U.S...