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...process was developed by a St. Paul inventor named Jose Baraquiel Calva, onetime Mexican government engineer. By treating fibers with several chemicals, including cresol, alcohol, benzol and hydrochloric acid, he converts them into a resinous plastic. The fibers can then be stiffened or softened, straightened or curled, made mothproof, shrinkproof, even waterproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Many a scientist was sure that it was only a question of time-perhaps five or ten years-before vastly bigger, farther-flying bombs can be dropped accurately on a target by radio control. The No. 1 U.S. expert on remote-controlled weapons, Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. of Gloucester, Mass., recalled a 1929 prediction : "The war of the future will last hours instead of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World War III Preview? | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Moon Professor. The buzz-bomb's inventor, by Stockholm report, is Hermann Oberth, 50, professor of physical astronomy at Berlin University. A stiff, old-fashioned pedagogue, Professor Oberth has long been famed in Europe as a writer on occultism and a pioneer in the study of interplanetary rocket flying. In 1923, when he published one of the first schemes for projecting a rocket into interplanetary space, he was nicknamed "the moon professor." He also predicted murderous rockets capable of being sent halfway around the earth and exterminating whole populations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World War III Preview? | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...Nation Could Feel Safe. . . ." The greatest flaw in Professor Oberth's gyro-steered product is its inaccuracy. Inventor Hammond dismisses current buzz-bombing as a form of "making faces, beating drums and throwing stink bombs." But Hammond, himself the inventor of a radio-controlled glider bomb, predicts that with radio devices steering the projectile from several different points to correct each other's errors, the robot bomb will become "quite dangerous." Experiments have shown, says he, that it is very difficult to interfere with radio control of a projectile; radio interference may even attract the missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World War III Preview? | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...Clamper. But the troubles of "Dear Charley" were not so much with Author Twain as with Inventor Twain and Businessman Twain-who never had made a nickel except by writing and publishing. From the publishing house Twain was reaping $100,000 a year-and pouring most of it into his inventions. There was Kaolatype (a chalk process for engraving). It had been going nowhere for years. There was the Twain bed clamp, designed to keep babies from getting wound up in the covers. It was Editor Webster, then an infant, who proved it unpractical. Nothing ever came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twain at His Worst | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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