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Sued for Divorce. Lieut. Commander Giles Chester Stedman, ex-Commander of the United States Lines; by Florence Leavitt Schick Stedman, ex-widow of Razor-Inventor Colonel Jacob Schick; in Reno...
Died. Sarah Haynes, Lady Maxim, widow of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, stepmother of the late Hiram Percy Maxim, inventor of the silencer; in Norwood, England...
...Arthur Guillaume Berault de St. Maurice expected his business to boom. He is the inventor of a machine that mends runs...
Thus, literally out of thin air, the turbosupercharger emerged last week as a menace to Hitler's power. It emerged, too, from 22 years of dusty neglect as a belated triumph for its inventor, Dr. Sanford Alexander Moss, 68, who developed the turbo long ago to help beat the Kaiser. As flyers in World War I reached for higher & higher altitudes, they found their engines losing power dangerously. Reason: atmospheric oxygen is as vital an aviation fuel as gasoline. At 20,000 feet, air is only half as dense as at sea level, at 35,000 feet one-fourth...
...handful of G.E. and Army and Navy air service enthusiasts. The geared supercharger became standard equipment on planes, and in 1938, aged 65, Dr. Moss sadly retired from General Electric. But World War II set flyers again to striving for altitudes incredible in 1917, brought the turbosupercharger and its inventor off the shelf. Today Moss is further improving the turbo (details are military secrets). Last week G.E. was completing a windowless, $5,000,000 supercharger plant at Everett, Mass., and announced plans for a similar $20,000,000 plant at Fort Wayne, Ind. Even if a turbo fell intact into...