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...became known that armed guards recently have escorted Owen D. Young wherever he went, because of violently threatening letters he has received for more than a year from an inventor who says his patents have been usurped by Radio Corp. of America. Police and Post Office Department agents, seeking the inventor, said they knew his name but would give no clew to his identity beyond stating that he once had Manhattan offices in Canal St. and is living comfortably off royalties from a ventilating device...
...Armour would have possessed 400 share's of that stock at the outset. He it was who, during a trip west in 1914, gathered together a few associates and formed the company (originally as National Hydro-Carbon Co.) to take over certain oil refining patents of Pennsylvania Inventor Jesse A. Dubbs. In 1916 Promoter Hiram J. Halle was made president. Halle's entire staff consisted of Jesse Dubbs, two assistants, and the two Dubbs sons, Carbon and C. A. No attempts were made to operate with the patents. Chief business was the perfecting of the patents...
...step-by-step dialing system is based on Inventor Almon B. Strowger's patents of 1891. These patents were developed and exploited by Automatic Electric Inc., manufacturers of Strowger Automatic Dial Systems...
...Professor Lowe,* meteorologist and inventor, built the balloon City of New York, then the largest ever constructed (diameter, 130 ft.), for a flight across the Atlantic. The outbreak of the Civil War upset that plan. Professor Lowe went to Washington to propose to General Winfield Scott the formation of a balloon corps. The General was not impressed, finally lent his ear and his aid only at the personal prompting of President Lincoln...
...American Association for the Advance ment of Science last week gave its annual prize to the inventor of a huge new ray tube...