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Recorded music is getting better. Part of the credit goes to improved electronic devices, part to engineers who combine technical knowledge with artistic temperament. One of these latter rare specimens is John Hays Hammond Jr., 58, America's gaudiest inventor and holder of nearly 800 patents. Last week he was tuning his latest gadget: an improved "dynamic amplifier," which coaxes uncannily lifelike music out of phonograph records. It was already licensed to RCA and A.T. & T., this month would be demonstrated to the crowned heads of the phonograph industry...
...Robert S. Schwab, head encephalographer at Massachusetts General, gazing into the vistas of research opened by Inventor Walter, mused: "Machines like this don't actually simplify our problem; they make it more difficult...
...course of a week's work, he submitted to a sampling of twelve-year-old cheese, tasted a "health" beverage (turnip juice, elderberries and soybeans) brought in by an elderly artist, promised to try a new kind of bread made from orange peelings by a Russian inventor. Says he: "There is a distinct gastronomic hazard in this work. But I know of no other job in which I can catch a twenty-pound striped bass off Gay Head and listen to a first performance of a Copland symphony by Koussevitzky, both in the line of duty, in the same...
...Field at Dayton, brain center of U.S. Army air power. Some of their names were still secret, but among them are men like 1) thin, nervous Dr. Alexander Lippisch, butterfly collector, landscape painter, lute player, and designer of the Messerschmitt 163 rocket plane, 2) blond, ruddy Dr. Hans Heinrich, inventor of the ribbon parachute, 3) Russian-born Dr. Eugen Ryschkewitsch, world authority on heat-resisting ceramics. Other new workers at Wright Field: German aerodynamicists, wind-tunnel men, instrument men and experts on all the complexities of modern aviation...
...Murray feels, the death-ray business may be looking up. After V-J day, a promising idea was presented to Government scientists. The inventor was told to continue his work in private, with Government blessing...