Word: inventor
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Died. Chester Carlson, 62, inventor of xerography, the dry-copying process that changed the routine in countless offices; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1934, Carlson, a physicist in a New York electrical firm, became so frustrated over the lack of copies of documents that he decided to do something about it. He worked four years to develop an electrostatic copying process, which has since become Xerox, an $800 million-a-year firm whose growth gave Carlson a fortune estimated at more than $150 million...
...Inventor Bert Adams demonstrated his new, nonrechargeable battery for the U.S. Army with understandable pride. Just as he claimed, it put out a steady current even in extreme heat or extreme cold. Worthless, said the military technicians. No, thank...
Every Effort. A Congress notably wary of any kind of spending seemed utterly uninterested in the welfare of the retired inventor. Now 69, he has been living in Yuma, Ariz., primarily on social security payments. Then last month, in a surprising paroxysm of activity, Congress passed a bill appropriating his money. After paying his lawyer and splitting with his fellow plaintiffs, Adams and his wife received $517,442.92. Said Bert: "It doesn't mean a thing, really, except that it was right for it to come out this way. What's a man my age going...
TUNC, by Lawrence Durrell. Lush Mediterranean settings, evocative nature writing and ribald wit are the underpinnings of this exuberant novel about an omniscient computer and its inventor's ambiguous struggles for freedom...
...reduces the efficiency of even the world's most powerful ice breakers. And broken chunks bob up astern, where they may damage cargo vessels that follow. Often the icebreakers are halted when pressure and friction from trapped floating chunks form a vise along their sides. Now a Canadian inventor, Scott Alexander, 55, has developed a new device that breaks ice upward. The new present seagoing ice plow, called the Alexbow, may well render present-day icebreakers obsolete...