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...years since he came over from Germany, Lange has won fame as inventor of the "weather balloon," a device which transmits meteorological information by means of a small radio. A native of Woisbaden and a graduate of the University of Darmstadt, Lange had taught here for five years...
Baseball's No. 1 scholar is an authority on phonetics, philology, political philosophy and Romance languages. He is also an inventor (a lens for color photography), businessman (he acquired half-interest in a writing-paper firm by lending a friend his World Series bonus nine years ago) and lawyer (for several winters with the eminent Manhattan firm of Satterlee & Canfield...
...Inventor of the camera, the late Bernhard Schmidt of Germany's Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory first described the device in 1931, but with uncooperative vagueness unusual in a scientist. U.S. astronomers-mostly amateurs-grasped Schmidt's hints, figured out how his lens, reflector and film must have been designed and assembled. When they had cleared up details in several experimental models, major U.S. observatories began building larger Schmidts. The biggest (24-36 inch) was dedicated last fortnight at Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Observatory, and others are nearing completion this week at Harvard, Mt. Palomar, Tonantzintla, Mexico...
...years since he arrived from Germany, Lange gained fame as the inventor of the "weather balloon" which relays data on the conditions at high altitudes by means of a tiny radio transmitter, canceling the necessity of airplane observation flights...
Started in 1826 by Inventor Morse and a group of painter friends in protest against the poetry readings and discussions of landscape gardening that went on at the American Academy of Arts, the National Academy grew more sedate as it grew older. Artistic radicals rebel against its standards, meekly join if they are asked. Today in the select roster of its membership Luigi Lucioni, Eugene Speicher, Guy Pene du Bois, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh rank with Gilbert Stuart, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent. (Grant Wood and Thomas Benton have never been invited...