Word: invention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shush" is really Hiram Percy Maxim, noise's bogeyman. Remarkable have been the Maine family of Maxims. Hudson Maxim, who started business as a printer, was the first to make smokeless powder in the U. S. Maxim, N. J. was named for him. He sold his powder inventions to E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. and became their consulting engineer in time to make a fortune from the Spanish-American War. Later he invented other high explosives, projectiles and devices. He blew off his left hand in a powder experiment, got a false hand which he used dexterously...
...desperation Chicago and Cook County (the two corporations are practically identical, and Mayor Cermak as political boss controls both) last week tried to get Illinois General Assembly to invent some means of raising cash. The General Assembly dallied and adjourned without giving Chicago help. Snarled Mayor Cermak: "They had it in their power to remedy this situation. When they adjourned without giving relief, it simply scuttled the ship, and Chicago is sunk...
...studio at the end of MacDougal Alley next to that of Daniel Chester French. MacDougal Alley is a cement-paved cul de sac in Greenwich Village, lined with little brick houses that once were the stables for the great houses on Washington Square. Mrs. Whitney certainly did not invent Greenwich Village as the centre of New York's art life, but her coming there attracted public attention to it. From the first her studio was as full of painters and sculptors as sculpture. In the days when U. S. dealers would not touch the work of U. S. modernists...
...fast as educators invent new systems designed to make effective selection and special training possible, the multitude rushes in and overwhelms them. The junior high school, designed to enable the best minds to go more rapidly through elementary and secondary schools and thus enter skilled vocations and professions at an earlier age, has grown into an overwhelmed hope. The selective process has not been sufficiently discerning to prevent the institutions from being packed with incompetent or reluctant minds. Statistics show that selection tends to become less ruthless rather than more so, and further retrogression in this respect would be most...
When a Congressional committee turned down his vote-recorder because Congressmen preferred the roll-call, he vowed: "I will never invent anything that isn't wanted again." Thus when he came accidentally across wireless waves, he took out a patent but, seeing no use at the time for this "etheric force," forgot it until he sold his right to Marconi in 1903. A need was his cue to start working; as when his friend. Rubberman Harvey Firestone sent to Liberia for materials. Forthwith Edison started his last experiments: U. S. rubber production from golden...