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Four years have passed since Inventor Theremin astonished people by passing his hands in front of wireless antennae and producing musical sounds. He said then that his invention offered many possibilities and his new devices last week included a dance floor so rigged underneath with Theremin rods that a dancer posturing on it can provide her own accompaniment...
...dozen publishers' representatives crowded around a linotype machine in the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer plant one day last week. No operator sat at the keyboard which was covered by a boxlike apparatus. Into a slot in the box Inventor Buford L. Green, 25 years an Observer employe, fed a sheet of copy typed on translucent paper. Then he turned a switch. To the wonderment of onlookers, the lintoype proceeded to set a galley of accurate type...
...Last week in London it was discovered that Senor Juan de la Cierva, inventor of the Autogiro, has built and flown a wingless craft which attains terrific speed, ascends steeply and descends gently by means of 'giro-like vanes...
Like many & many an experimenter before him, one Willard Edward Blain of New London, Conn, strapped himself to an arrangement of batlike wings one chill dawn last week and tried to flap through space. About 100 spectators, including a squad of newsmen and photographers, watched as the inventor poised, 5-11. wings outspread, on the rail of a highway bridge over the Thames River. Presently he took off, plunked straight down 35 feet into the icy water. Extricating himself with difficulty, Bat Man Blain was picked up by a motorboat from which he proudly dove again into the water...
Died. Bernard Arthur Behrend, 56. famed electrical engineer and inventor, authority on induction motors; by his own hand (pistol); in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Reason: ill health...