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...inventors of most games are as anonymous as the inventors of the candle or the wheel. Not so the inventor of basketball. He is Dr. James A. Naismith, director of the department of physical education at Kansas University. At McGill University he was the best athlete in his class (1887). From McGill Theological Seminary he went to Springfield Y. M. C. A. College to teach. Amos Alonzo-Stagg went there the same year to coach football and Dr. Naismith played centre on Stagg's team. In 1891, he was assigned to design an indoor game for a gymnasium class...
...country is not going to hell," said Charles Edison, son of the late Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in Manhattan...
Such a scene was not enacted last week but it was prepared on paper. The scheme was newsworthy because it issued not from a crackpot inventor but from a builder who, already famed for racing designs, promises this year to become a factor in commercial airplane manufacturing. He is Granville, of Springfield, Mass...
...first time the special reproducing apparatus designed by Mirko Paneyko, a Cambridge inventor, will be heard in public, at the Germanic Museum, tomorrow, at 1 o'clock, when the opera "Der Gotterdammerung" is broadcast from New York...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace considered a Czech electrical device for analyzing chemicals so highly useful that it imported the inventor last week, let him pause only briefly in Manhattan, sent him post-haste to Berkeley, Calif. There he will be Professor Charles Bernard Lipman's house guest. After the University of California has Professor Jaroslav Heyrovsky for one month, he will spend another month at Stanford. Then Caltech will get him for two months. He expects those institutions, and many other rich ones, will buy his device. Enterprising Universities of Michigan, Chicago and Ohio already have them, only...