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Theodore Miller Edison, youngest son of the late great inventor, was granted his first patent, on a device to eliminate vibration from any kind of machinery, from a phonograph to a truck...
Henry Alexander Wise Wood, 66, white-haired, blue-eyed, resolute, has a versatility comparable to that of the famed men of the Renaissance. As an inventor he has over 450 patents to his name, is said to have done more mechanically for modern journalism than any other man. As a sportsman he yachts, flies, once made a canoe trip with his wife from New York to Nova Scotia. He also writes verse...
...Wall Street Journal. Activity of the stock increased, the price was jumped from $4 to $7.50 in the second week of January 1930. Then the directors of Indian Motocycle purchased the rights to a Diesel airplane engine (for 50,000 shares of stock) from a well-known British inventor, agreed to split profits with him. Plummer got the story in the London Daily Mail, distributed reprints to the U. S. press. Circulars and telegrams were sent out by persuasive Hansell & Co. By March the price of Indian Motocycle reached $17, then sank to $5.50 in June when Plummer, and presumably...
...High-speed color printing for newspapers is Mr. Wood's chief interest and in it he will recognize only one rival, the Claybourn Press (used by the Pittsburgh Press). Another big developer of color presses has been C. B. Cottrell & Sons. Its founder, Calvert Byron Cottrell, was an inventor of many devices used in modern printing and his son, Charles P. Cottrell, who died last week at the age of 74, developed the magazine rotary press and also the multi-colored rotary perfecting press which prints four colors on one side of the paper, two on the other...
Called the "semagraph," Inventor Green's device is based upon use of the photo-electric cell. The special typewriter used in preparing copy prints a coded combination of dots under each character. Each group of dots interrupts a tiny beam of light in the semagraph, causing the proper type letter mold to fall into place...