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Besides Pilot Hinkler's evident ability as a distance flyer and navigator. Editor Grey portrays him as a smart inventor but a poor businessman; an extraordinary testpilot but utterly lacking in tact? "quite capable of going to a managing director and telling him that if he really wants to make money out of aeroplanes the best thing he can do is pension off his chief designer just for the sake of keeping him away from the Design Office...
Died. John Manning van Heusen, 63, inventor of the first semisoft collar; of pneumonia; in Scarsdale, N. Y. He patented his collar in 1913. marketed it in 1921 with Phillips Jones Co. which has sole manufacturing rights. In 1922 Inventor Van Heusen and Phillips Jones Co. successfully sued the bulk of the U. S. collar industry for infringement of patents. In the following year, however, Inventor Van Heusen was sued for $6,000,000 by John B. Bolton. For patents he had assigned to Van Heusen, Inventor Bolton later received $1,000,000. Other Van Heusen inventions: nonslip garters, nonslip...
...preview in Chicago, 27-year-old Inventor Leonarde Keeler tried out on two members of the audience his "Lie-Detector" which police have found handy for questioning recalcitrant suspects. The '"Lie-Detector" is a device which, by means of arm and chest bands, records on a paper chart changes in blood pressure and pulse action, presumably resulting from emotion. At last week's test, it worked so well when attached to two De Paul University students that Inventor Keeler said: "The results are . . . even more pronounced than in many cases in which suspects are being questioned in connection...
...Tobermory Bay, off the :est coast of Scotland, dredging still goes on for the lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all attempts to drain it. Last fortnight Inventor Simon Lake was in the newspapers with an elaborate plan and a ong steel tube to salvage the millions hat went down in the purser's strong room in the Lusitania...
...Fradd is the author of several articles bearing on health and efficiency and is the inventor of the silhouetteo-graph, the camera-like machine for graphing posture, with which undergraduates are familiar...