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Movies about the press inevitably display lots of typewriters on which reporters furiously bang out their stories as if they were using artillery. Such scenes illustrate the idea that the typewriter can be a weapon, which recalls the original patent that the inventor, Christopher Latham Sholes, sold to E. Remington & Sons, a manufacturer of firearms. There is always something heroically decisive about a character's plunking himself down before a typewriter in a movie. The machine itself becomes an instrument of integrity, which may be one of the things we miss when it finally disappears...
...equally dedicated inventor of the device, Dr. Robert Jarvik, 36, was also present. The son of a doctor, Jarvik designed his first medical invention, a surgical stapler, while still in high school. His interest in the heart was prompted by his father's battle with cardiac disease. A spare-time sculptor, Jarvik was able to combine his artistic and medical interests as a design engineer at Utah's artificial-organ program beginning in 1971; he earned his medical degree there...
Maybe Harvard can claim more Noble Prize recipients than any other university in the country, but the award for developing an item of "real value" may go to a Princeton professor-turned-inventor, creator of what he claims is the world's first "mathematically perfect" tennis racket...
...4077th M*A*S*H we raise our martini glasses one last time (ingredients: plenty f gin and a toast to Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth...
Apple hopes that Lisa will go a long way toward opening up the computer market to a new group of consumers. "It's definitely the way things are moving," says Gary Kildall, the inventor of the popular CP/M operating system that runs many small computers and one of more than 28 independent programmers who are writing additional software for the Lisa. Paul Freiberger, a senior editor of the trade weekly Info World, agrees. "I was blown away," he says. "They are a year ahead of everybody...