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Soviet QSL postcards, often printed in English, are government-made and attractively illustrated with monuments, public buildings, various war medals, and propagandistic puffs for Russian greats. A popular model carries a likeness of Alexander Popov (1859-1905), hailed by the Russians as the "inventor of radio...
Xerography's inventor, Chester F. Carlson, 42, a New York patent attorney and physicist, produced his first Xerographic image in 1938. Company after company turned down the process until, in 1944, the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio finally took on the expensive job of perfecting...
...great day for Inventor Harry Ferguson. Less than 15 months after Henry Ford II had stopped producing Ferguson tractors, Irish-born Harry Ferguson stepped into his first tractor to drive it out of his new Detroit plant. He had something to crow about...
Died. Thomas Armat, 81, inventor of the Vitascope (film projector), which paved the way for the modern movie industry; in Washington. He regarded his invention as "just a side issue" and agreed to let Thomas A. Edison's name be attached to it for commercial reasons (but Armat got rich on the patent rights). Last March Hollywood awarded him a special Oscar for the "debt...
...Southampton, N.Y., Constance Murray, 19, blonde debutante granddaughter of the late millionaire Inventor Thomas E. Murray (she is also a sister of Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt and a cousin of Mrs. Henry Ford II),* had thought things out and come to a major decision. Renouncing worldly goods (her grandfather left $10,000,000) and worldly pleasures (a Manhattan debut last winter and a two-month tour of Europe this summer), she announced that on Sept. 15 she would enter the Convent of the Holy Child, Sharon Hill, Pa., to become...