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Whisky is one of the few improvements on nature which the vodka-drinking Russians forgot to invent. It came, the Russians say, from medieval Ireland, where "it was known as uskvebak, which means 'water of life...
Like most Americans, Engineer Hans Goldschmidt knew that one of the quickest ways to make a fortune is to invent a new gadget or machine. Unlike most Americans, who never get beyond the daydreaming stage, Goldschmidt made his daydream come true. His invention: a home power tool that could be used as a lathe, vertical and horizontal drill, sander, saw-and do almost anything else needed for woodworking. Last week Goldschmidt's streamlined new model of the "Shop-smith," the do-it-yourself boom's most versatile power tool, went on display at a do-it-yourself exhibition...
...idea of three condemned men who are better than most of their unimprisoned associate and who arrange fate according to an optimum standard of justice is amusing at least for a time. It provides the convicts with an opportunity to invent a variety of tricks, including mock trials and frivolous discussions of good and evil, in their efforts to save the Ducotels. Slezak, bouncing about the stage in a care-free, self-assured style, is the real mastermind of the group. A superb comedian, he makes gimmicks which might have grown stale seem fresh throughout...
...allows his mind to range widely when he meditates upon these mysteries inherent in Sikorsky the designer and inventor. He cannot understand, for instance, why man's conquest of the air was not begun by the early Greeks or Romans. Both, he feels, were perfectly capable of inventing and flying gliders; both, to his way of thinking, produced minds which could have grasped the scientific conquests involved; both had carpenters and artisans capable of building such machines, and both made the fabrics, paints and materials needed for their construction. "But they didn't," he sadly concludes, "even invent...
...with respect, and a man who got high enough to "break wood" (i.e., have an actual crash) was a hero. Paris rang with theories on planes and flight, almost all of them completely false. One Captain Ferber, however, gave the youth a piece of advice he never forgot: "To invent a flying machine is nothing; to build it is little; to make it fly is everything...