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Individualistic Inventions. Once, mechanical inventions dominated; the electromechanical telephone (Pat. No. 174,465) is still considered the most valuable invention ever patented. But the fastest-rising area of patents in recent years has been in chemicals and electronics; chemical patents now account for 20% of all new filings. Inventors nowadays are also hard at work in such areas as automated text reading, desalinization of seawater, freeze-drying techniques and the development of new drugs...
...pretty lonely out there after Gurney left," he chuckled, posing for photographers with Miss Universe. "But I would have won anyway." Gurney was not so sure: "This issue between us is not at all settled." Other sports-car drivers groused that Foyt won only because he had the fastest car. "That gearbox alone cost a few thousand dollars," said one, "and those Weber carburetors are the best there is." Said another: "I'd like to see him in a lesser car before I made up my mind how good he is." But Foyt, of course, got in the last...
...that Cassius is not the impotent puncher that his critics had labeled him. If Cassius showed that he can hand out some punishment, his weathering of Liston's third round attack also proved that he can take it. Clay has been maintaining for some time that he is the fastest heavyweight ever. Few would doubt...
Catching a Vacuum. An iceboat travels fastest across the wind-on what sailors call "a reach." Its speed results from the sail's efficiency as an airfoil -something like the wing on an airplane. Sailing directly downwind, an iceboat cannot exceed the wind's speed. On a reach, though, the wind produces a vacuum on the lee of the slightly slanting sail. This results in a strong forward force. As the sail pushes forward trying to eliminate the vacuum, an iceboat can attain fantastic speeds -up to five times the actual wind velocity. The ice sailor hauls...
...issue is Xerox's domination of the dry-copying field (no messy, discoloring chemicals), the fastest-growing and most profitable part of the industry. Since Xerox came on the market in 1960 with its 914 model, which makes copies by dissipating an electrically charged powder onto ordinary paper, three other companies-SCM, Addressograph's Bruning division, and American Photocopy-have entered the field. The competitors' machines make copies on paper precoated with zinc oxide, a dry photoconductive chemical...