Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his Government grant, Gourdine plans to conduct further research on a novel generator that he already has working in small models. With no moving parts, without any need for water, and with only low-grade coal for energy, the New Jersey inventor's "electrogasdynamic" generator can, and does, produce electricity. The problem now is to make the EGD system work on a large scale and with greater efficiency...
...high voltage produced by Gourdine's generator is ideal for transmitting electricity over long lines with minimum loss of power. The small current, says the inventor, can be compensated by having many small EGD tubes connected in parallel with each other. Theoretically, it should work. To turn theory into practice may be something else again...
...Serene Highnesses are some very active types, in the tradition of Thai women, who like to go into business and to gamble. Princess Chumbhot of Nagar Svarga is vice president of a bank, benefactor of a Bangkok hospital, curator of her own palace-museum, patron of Thai artists, and inventor of the sport of tubing-going over rapids in an inner tube...
Married. Sir Robert Watson-Watt, 73, Scottish-born scientist who was knighted in 1942 for helping to win the Battle of Britain as the principal inventor of radar; and Dame Katherine Forbes, 66, wartime head of the R.A.F. women's auxiliary; he for the third time, she for the first; in London...
...hurl myself into the breach in defense of Paul Ricard, inventor of the finest drink since sour mash [Feb. 25]. Your reporter, probably an undercover man for the W.C.T.U., has slandered the drinking man's Thomas Edison in saying that ice added to Ricard's pastis turns the licorice into a gooey glob. I modestly claim the record for annual consumption by an American of this delightful brew, and have yet to find a single glob in any of my well-iced drinks. Retract your calumny against this benefactor of mankind...