Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fierce com petition, business in the Valley of the Chips re mains something of a family affair. The corporate Abraham of the industry was Shockley Transistor Corp., founded in Palo Alto in 1956 by William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor and a Nobel laureate...
...Harvard colleagues believe his approach to conflicts is a useful and innovative one. Ernest R. May, professor of History, who concentrates on foreign affairs, says Fisher is "very able, very stimulating, very provocative. He has a very practical approach." Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy and an inventor of the highly-influential "game theory," says Fisher "has a lot of good ideas and a lot of bad ideas, but many people don't get any ideas. He's an optimist and he may be off in the clouds, but people who are not off in the clouds never...
Murray maintained a huge correspondence, sometimes writing 40 letters a day; his mail went, he said, "to Lord Tennyson to ask where he got the word balm-cricket and what he meant by it; to the Sporting News about a term in horse-racing, or pugilism; or the inventor of the word hooligan ... to the Mayor of Yarmouth about the word bloater in the herring fishery." Once he wrote to the Linnaean Society for help with the word aphis - first used by Linnaeus for green fly; his inquiry made its scholarly rounds until someone in desperation thought...
DIED. Peter Carl Goldmark, 71, Hungarian-born electronic whiz and inventor of the 33% r.p.m. long-playing record; in an automobile accident; in Westchester County, N.Y. President of CBS Laboratories for 17 years, Goldmark also developed the video cassette for recording TV images on tape, and the so-called rotating-disk system for color TV. While the disk device failed by a whisker to win F.C.C. approval as the standard U.S. TV system, it was later used to send the first color images from the moon. Said Goldmark, who preferred practical applications to ivory-tower theorizing: "An inventive idea without...
...hard about what he has dug up. Clark continually and annoyingly relies on quotes to supply the book's only colorful observations about Edison's personality and his image. It is Edison's words, not Clark's, that provide the reader with a sense of the danger of the inventor's headlong rush to "make it go." Clark quotes Edison when he decided to relocate his lab in New Jersey saying, "See that valley? Well, I'm going to make it more beautiful. I'm going to dot it with factories...