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Masonite was not named for the benefit of the building trade but for the inventor of the basic processes-William Horatio Mason. A broad-shouldered, white-haired Virginia-born engineer who spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post...
...first it was thought that the pulp could be made into paper but insulating board soon promised a better use. Backed by a group of Wisconsin lumbermen, Inventor Mason began to experiment with methods of forming and pressing his pulp. Once when he went to lunch he left a wet slab on a hot press, hurried back, when he remembered, to remove it. Meantime a cranky steam valve had permitted the press to grow hotter and heavier with the result that Inventor Mason found, instead of a fibrous board, a dense, grainless, rigid sheet of material, which, in its present...
Developed by Autogiro Co. of America, the new giro is the product of many extraordinary recent improvements on the bastard airplane with rotors whose crude ancestor Inventor Juan de la Cierva first made hover in the air 13 years ago. The modern giro is completely wingless, is merely a fuselage with a propeller, a tail, a direct-control rotor. The pilot sets the giro's course by tilting the rotor. In the "readable" model the engine for the first time is behind and below the pilot. This gives him perfect vision on the highway, better balance...
Soon to be adapted to the "roadable" giro is Inventor Cierva's new "jump take-off"-a method by which the giro for the first time can actually rise straight into the air. This is done by briefly gearing the rotor blades to the engine and whirling them at top speed while their angle of incidence is zero. When the clutch is disengaged and the blades are suddenly given a sharp angle of incidence, the giro jumps some 15 feet straight off the ground. Then the propeller drags the giro forward...
Because roundworms and earthworms look alike, from time immemorial the lethal effects of roundworm vermicides have first been tried on earthworms before application to humans. Only last spring Pharmacologist Glenn Llewellyn Jenkins of the University of Maryland, chemist and assiduous inventor of synthetic drugs, published an article in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association on "Rational Use of the Earthworm for the Evaluation of Vermicides." This profoundly agitated Pharmacologist Paul Dudley Lamson of Vanderbilt University, caused him to write a vigorous rebuttal which Science published last week. Snapped Professor Lamson: "The human Ascaris [roundworm] is a parasitic animal living...