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Died. Cromwell Arthur Bedford Halvorson, 80, inventor and General Electric engineer, who turned Thomas Edison's original light bulb into a flood of stop lights, headlights and searchlights, most notably the arc light that in 1911 made Broadway the Great White Way; of a heart attack; in Salem, Mass...
Ever since the 19303, Machines Bull has been aggressively trading punch cards and crossing calculators in a hotjduel with IBM, has so thrived on the struggle that its sales have gone from $7,000,000 to $68 million in 1962. The company took its name from Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull, whose patents it acquired to make its first punch-card machine; it is now controlled by the Callies family (paper mills). It turned out a tabulator that was for years the fastest on the market, brought out the first computer to use compact germanium diodes as well as tubes...
...rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect trip...
...Gttingen's scientific star shone in the early 19th century under Astronomer Carl Gauss, one of the key founders of modern mathematical analysis and hence of modern physics. In the 1920s Physicists Max Born and James Franck taught on Gottingen's Bunsenstrasse. named after Alumnus Robert Bunsen, inventor of the burner...
...process called xerography (derived from Greek and meaning dry writing), which showed promise of reproducing papers and documents without the standard need for chemical developing. He bought some of the rights to xerography from Battelle Memorial Institute, a nonprofit industrial research organization that had helped its inventor. New York Patent Attorney Chester Carlson, develop the process...