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...proper perspective on the development of science in countries such as China, we shall not be able to act rationally, and will surely suffer a rude awakening in the not too distant future." ¶Bell Labs' Walter H. Brattain (1956 prize-co-inventor of the transistor) said that before World War II the U.S. was "a nation that offered asylum to independent and nonconformist thinking individuals," but after the war the Government went on classifying "anything that might possibly aid an enemy"-a program that discouraged "top scientific men who might otherwise have come to our country." Concluded Brattain...
...first test flight at Saunders-Roe's plant at Cowes, the Hovercraft rose 15 in. above the concrete runway. Test Pilot Peter Lamb maneuvered it easily, using a standard aircraft control stick. To dramatize the low friction of its air cushion, Inventor Christopher Cockrell pushed the four-ton craft around the apron by hand. Later the Hovercraft was towed out into the Solent for its first water trial. It rose in a cloud of spray and skimmed easily above the water among yachts and harbor traffic...
Edwin H. Land, industrialist, inventor of Polaroid Land camera, president, Polaroid Corp..................................................................... Sc.D...
...publishing success formula as improbable as the society that conceived it. The charter members met in Washington one January night in 1888 determined to promote "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge." At first their magazine was filled with minutes of meetings and obscure scientific tracts. But when an inventor named Alexander Graham Bell took over as the society's president in 1898, he decided that it needed a full-time editor and a broader appeal. A year later he found the right man: Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, a 23-year-old, ninth-generation New Englander. Gilbert Grosvenor married Bell...
Died. John Cromwell Lincoln, 92, founder (1893) of Lincoln Electric Co., one of the world's largest welding-equipment manufacturers, inventor who took out more than 50 patents for electrical devices, owner of a real estate empire reputed to be worth $100 million, pamphleteer who promoted the single-tax ideas of Henry George and ran for U.S. Vice President in 1924 on the single-tax platform of the Commonwealth Land Party; in Scottsdale. Ariz...