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Shapley now joins the ranks of Edison, Marconi, Orville Wright, Einstein, and Charles F. Kettering, who have also received the medal. At present, shapley is working with galaxies, star clusters, and astronomical data on the formation of the earth's crust...
...crusader from birth, the magazine has been in the thick of the hurly-burly of U.S. invention. Through its Manhattan editorial office trooped Morse, Gatling, the Maxim brothers, Edison, many another great inventor. Scientific American used to maintain a patent advice agency which, besides giving the magazine many a news scoop, presided benevolently over inventors, encouraging the sincere, diligently exposing the fakers. (Typical case: a "perpetual motion" machine which baffled everybody until Scientific American's editors X-rayed it, discovered inside a clocklike apparatus which could be wound by key through a simulated worm-hole...
...Marlowe Morris (piano), Sidney Catlett and Joe Jones (drums), Lester Young and Illinois Jacquet (tenor sax), Red Callender and John Simmons (bass), Harry Edison (trumpet), Barney Kessel (guitar...
Hand in Glove (adapted from Gerald Savory's novel Hughie Roddis by the author and Charles K. Freeman; produced by Arthur Edison) commits many crimes but not the fatal one of dullness. A grim pathological thriller, it has a double focus on a young sex psychopath who murders young girls, and on an idiot boy whom the murderer tries to frame...
Tesla, who considered Edison a mere inventor, not a scientist, quit in 1885 when Edison refused to pay $50,000 Tesla thought he had been promised for his work. In 1912 Tesla refused the Nobel prize because it was to be shared with Edison. Only after long argument was Tesla prevailed upon to accept the Edison Medal for his achievements...