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Currently, Davis is working on a screenplay for 20th Century Fox called "Internal Combustion," "about an inventor who, through technology, is going to liberate people. He invents a car that turns on a tuning fork and makes music as it runs. Traffic noise would sound life symphonies. But of course big businesses don't want the car marketed because of what it would do to the economy. Original ideas only cause trouble...
Electric cars now require a battery charge after only about 60 miles, but the plastic batteries would allow cars to run three times as far before needing a recharge, Alan Heeger, the other inventor and acting vice provost for research at UPenn, said yesterday...
DIED. Edwin Link, 77, inventor of the Link flight simulator, a device used to train millions of military and commercial airline pilots for instrument landings; of cancer; in Binghamton, N.Y. A seasoned pilot at age 25, Link built his first simulator in 1929 and, as the head of Link Aviation from 1935 to 1954, went on to produce trainers for radar, gunnery and space navigation. Starting in the 1950s, he helped to develop a series of manned ocean explorers, including the first practical submersible with an exit hatch to allow divers to explore the ocean floor at far greater depths...
...course. Tom himself had yet to achieve hero status. One could imagine even the young inventor going home to read Tarzan, or, as the times changed, sitting in a theater to watch Sam Spade or Philip Marlow or Humphrey Bogart. Or watching newsreels of Lindbergh. Even Tom would respond to that hierarchy. It may have been an unprecedented spree of hyperbole, but the newspapers called Lindbergh's landing "The biggest news story since the crucifixion of Christ." Well, obviously, it wasn't the biggest story since Roman times--but it might have been the biggest news story. News, after...
...famine at International Harvester has come after years of plenty. Founded in 1831 by Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the first mechanical reaper, the company was directed primarily by the McCormick family until 1977. But Chairman Brooks McCormick, Cyrus' great-grandnephew, then admitted that the firm had become "stodgy." Said McCormick two months before his retirement as chief executive officer: "We've been a slumbering giant. We need a shake-up and a darned good...