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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven years ago the general manager of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.'s electric storage battery factory, George E. Stringfellow. yelled into Edison's less deaf ear: "Mr. Edison, would you be willing to continue as consultant for the battery company after you passed to the Great Beyond." Said Edison: "You are crazy." Shouted Stringfellow: ''It might work. You invented this battery, and in your mind there is information about it that no one else has. Will you let the stall give you written questions about the battery every Saturday afternoon before you go home? You could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prescient Edison | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...quality known as "rigidity in space" or gyroscopic inertia. Turn or move the gyroscope mounting and the flywheel will continue to rotate in the same plane. This stability provides a known factor which can be used to determine or counteract all sorts of variables. Sperry Gyroscope Co. Inc. sells a gyrocompass which is standard equipment on most liners, gyrostabilizer to prevent ships from rolling, gyro-horizon to indicate the attitude of planes in relation to the horizontal, directional gyro to indicate direction for steering a straight course. Greatest refinement of all is the gyropilot, which is standard on most airline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rigidity in Space | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...Sperry Co. Serious, hard-working Tom Morgan applied himself with such vigor that by 1922 he was vice president, had contributed immeasurably to Sperry's rise to dominance in the field of nautical and aeronautical instruments. In 1928 when the company was bought by North American Aviation, Inc. Tom Morgan became president of reorganized Sperry Gyroscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rigidity in Space | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...president of Curtiss-Wright Corp., vice president of Eastern Air Transport, president of North American Aviation, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. But he has continued to run Sperry and currently he has offices in Manhattan as president of Sperry Corp., a holding company owning Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., Ford Instrument Co. Inc. (rangefinders, etc.), Waterbury Tool Co. (hydraulic variable speed transmissions), Vickers. Inc. (hydraulic pumps), Intercontinent Corp. (exporters of U. S. aircraft and aeronautical products). Last week Sperry Corp. issued its statement for the first half of 1937-net profits from operations $1,186,000, up almost100% from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rigidity in Space | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Such resigned generalities as these filled the air in Philadelphia's elegant Bellevue-Stratford Hotel last week as 1,000 restaurateurs gathered for the annual convention of the International Stewards & Caterers Association. The delegates listened appreciatively when a representative of Tested Selling, Inc. hissed: ''Don't sell the steak; sell the sizzle."* For president they re-elected genial William A. Heaman, who is steward of the Harvard Union (freshman dining hall) and is regarded by Harvardmen as no heir to Brillat-Savarin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Caterers' Capers | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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