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That was the significance of an invention announced last week in London. If it lives up to its inventor's expectations, "room" may be made on the U. S. air for 3⅓ times the present number of stations (631); on Britain's air, for three times the present number of stations (20). Long-wave stations must now be spaced at least ten kilocycles apart...
Since the perfection of the early form of talking pictures (sound-on-record), many companies have been experimenting with the photography of sound on the film itself. A new sound-on-film process worked out by Inventor Theodore Nakken, president of Nakken Corp., discards the use of a slit device for limiting the area of photographic sound on a film. Claiming sole rights to this method, and also to the sound-on-film device which employs the slit (Fox Movietone, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO, Paramount), Nakken Corp. has requested an adjudication of patents from the U. S. Patent Office. Last...
...cognac is a spirit, not a wine, and as Barthe pointed out, the internationally great French scientist Pasteur (inventor of milk pasteurization) said definitively: "Wine is the most healthy and hygienic ot beverages...
Thomas Midgley Jr., Dayton chemist, inventor of ethyl gasoline, placed a dish of a new refrigerant devised by him on a table before his section. Leaning low over the boiling dish he inhaled the white gas given off by the steaming liquid. Through a rubber tube he then blew the gas out of his lungs into a dish containing a burning candle, extinguished...
This was the Probak "butterfly" blade (so called because of a filigree design in its center), invented by Henry J. Gaisman (also inventor of the autograph system used in Eastman Kodaks), chairman of AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., manufacturers of Probak. This blade, which fits the Gillette razors, was patented in 1928; a patent was reissued for it in January 1930. New Gillette blades bear the legend "Patents Pending," are, therefore, not patented...