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...reason that though all rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not increase?" By the turn of the century, Noah Webster, '78, had moved into a house up the street to begin his dictionary, and Eli Whitney, '92, was beginning his career as inventor and one of the great forces in the Industrial Revolution...
...Forest, 77, inventor of the electron tube, who sometimes worries about its development into radio and television, had a moment of mellow reflection following General MacArthur's coverage on TV. Wrote De Forest in a letter to the New York Times: "In the past I have complained bitterly about some of the uses to which 'my children,' radio and television, have been put . . . [But] what an aid to democracy talking pictures, radio and television can be. Instead of a static photograph or a brief glimpse of a man going by in a car, the American citizen...
...Edwin H. Land '30, inventor of the Polaroid land camera, was elected president of the Academy of Arts and Sciences last night. He replaces Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, who held the office for seven years...
Sinclair, announced Spencer, will open the facilities of its huge Harvey, Ill. research laboratory to any U.S. inventor with a promising idea in the field of petroleum. The company will test such ideas free of charge, and if the results justify it, provide the technicians and money for research to push them to completion. In return, the inventor will be required to let Sinclair use the process royalty-free, but since the inventor holds the patent, he may also sell it to anybody else. The news was hardly out before scores of ideas began flooding Sinclair's Manhattan offices...
...basement inventor who was lending real color to the struggle. One offered a drawstring bag to be yanked over the head and cinched up tight in times of peril. A patent-medicine mixer gave the public "U-236 Atomic Shock Cure" for a while, but the Public Health Service frowned-it consisted of table salt, bicarbonate of soda and water...