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Kollsman is the name of a shy, German-born inventor who studied mechanical engineering at the technical schools of Stuttgart and Munich, in 1923 emigrated to the U. S., found work as a truck driver's assistant, then as a mechanic for Pioneer Instrument Co., a Bendix subsidiary. By 1928 Paul Kollsman had accumulated $500 and started Kollsman Instrument...
...Lindy." In charge of mine research for the Admiralty was put First Lord Winston Churchill's inventor-friend, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Oxford professor, scientist, aviator, director of the R. A. F.'s Physical Laboratory in World War I. One mine brought in for "Lindy's" inspection was retrieved by a brave diver who went to the bottom alone to get it. Report was that the triggers of the new mines were found to be so sensitive they responded to sound waves as well as magnetism...
...Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc. Kimball bought Stone's share in 1896, headed for Manhattan, made the only attempt to publish a U. S. literary daily (the editors burned out in a fortnight), soon fizzled out as a general publisher. He ended as an authority on industrial pension plans, inventor of World War I's "baby bonds...
Even his opponents admit that Picasso has influenced the art of his time more than any of his contemporaries. As an inventor and transmitter of painting techniques he is unrivaled. A believer in eclecticism if not in consecutive growth, Picasso himself knows why he is always changing. Says he: "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. That is why we must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there...
...years the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (founder: Benjamin Franklin) has gone solidly about its business of promoting science and industry. To many a famed scientist, engineer, inventor have gone its awards for work that advanced their professions. Like other kudos-conferring bodies, the Institute has never tried to bestow kudos-where-kudos-is-due among ordinary businessmen. This week the Institute stepped out, announced that from now on it would recognize the science of industrial management...