Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chosen nation of towering indestructible infernoes blazing to the sky. The land of Milk and Honey and Twelve Foot Citizens. It could never happen in China or the Soviet Union, or any of these other knee-high, submongoloid, blankety-blank satrapies. But only in America. Subway to Freedom. Inventor of Intelligence. Home of Thomas Edison, Rutherford Hays, Popeye The Sailor Manson, Telly Sevalis, Gene Kelly, Huey Long, Richard Ward Day, George C. Patton, James Joyce, Martin Kilson, Endicott Peabody, F.W. Woolworth, and Paul Revere, just to name...
Solar energy is being tapped in many strange and wondrous ways. In New Mexico, where the sun is seldom obscured by clouds. Inventor Steve Baer heats his futuristic-looking home by means of a "passive" solar system that has a minimum of mechanical components. The south-facing walls of Baer's home outside Albuquerque are floor-to-ceiling windows, and behind these glass panels are walls composed of water-filled 55-gal. steel drums. The drums absorb the sun's heat by day, radiate it at night when the windows are covered by huge clamshell-like shutters...
Died. William J. Sparks, 71, co-inventor of butyl rubber and the holder of 145 patents; after a long illness; in Coral Gables, Fla. Joining the Standard Oil Co. (now Exxon) in 1936 as a research chemist, he soon helped develop the synthetic rubber so vital to Allied forces during World War II. Sparks often expressed his concern that young scientists be taught an obligation to society. Said he: "Science without purpose is an art without responsibility...
Rowland Emett has had more than trivial genetic lift. His grandfather was Queen Victoria's court engraver, his father an amateur inventor. Emett himself has put wires together and lines on paper since early childhood. At 13 he devised a novel gramophone windup mechanism-just as gramophones succumbed to electricity. Undeterred, he became a stellar and sometimes lunar cartoonist. During World War II, some equally dotty boffin at the Air Ministry decided from Emett's complicated cartoons that the artist-a man as mild as Lewis Carroll's Dormouse-should be commandeered to help build nongentle-manly...
Many corners later, Stanford Graduate Warner LeRoy, now 41, commands a fantasy world worthy of both H. Warner and M. LeRoy. He is the inventor and presiding panjandrum of two Manhattan eating places that establish him as a restaurateur-impresario sans pareil. Almost with his left hand, he also created Great Adventure, a thriving 1,500-acre, $100 million amusement-safari park in New Jersey. Clearly, Warner LeRoy is a triumph of Ozmosis...