Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Working alone in his Newark, N. J., laboratory Frederick T. O'Grady, inventor in his late 30's, produced a system of color cinemagraphy that has some advantages over the system recently worked out by the vast Eastman laboratories...
...Inventor O'Grady has been working on his system for eight and a half years. Twenty one years ago he worked for the Kinemacolor company. Its pictures showed only two colors. This came from taking two films simultaneously, one through one color screen, the other through another color screen. Then the two films were glued together. Technicolor and Prismacolor pictures shown at present-day theatres come through similar processes...
...When Inventor O'Grady exhibited his apparatus last week at L. Bamberger & Co.'s Newark department store the colors seemed natural. But the pictures, shown large, flickered. Positives can be printed in any numbers from the original film, an advantage commercially. Entrepreneurs at once offered Mr. O'Grady a million dollars for his invention. He refused it. He has his own company going-on a small scale, last week...
British Bechuanaland. Dr. Will J. Cameron, Chicago dentist and inventor of surgical instruments, is an amateur anthropologist. He believes that Roy Chapman Andrews, hunting in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia for traces of man's origin, is astray, because "in a place like the Gobi it takes the ingenuity of the devil to survive." Obviously the statement is a rhetorical exaggeration by Dr. Cameron. The Gobi was once a lake, once a swamp. Dr. Cameron's idea is that man as a distinct anthropoid began in the withering Kalahari Desert of British Bechuanaland...
Died. Frank McDowell Leavitt, 72, inventor, 25 years ago, of the machine that makes tin cans, inventor of the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo used by the U. S. Navy since 1918; of heart disease; at Scarsdale...