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Signer Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of transmission without wires and a devout Catholic, is daily supervising installation of the papal radio apparatus in a special one-story building from which sprout antennae 180 ft. high (but not higher than the dome of St. Peter...
...David Wesson of the Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Co., inventor of Wesson (cottonseed) Oil, is working on a hot dog which will be made from the "cake'' residue left after the oil has been pressed from cottonseed (TIME, March...
...five feet four inches tall, weigh 138 pounds and am a blonde." Thus wrote Sally Gallant, of Newcastle, Pa., to Ludvik Ocenasek, Prague inventor, asking him to send her to the moon in a rocket of his invention...
Further excerpts: ". . . The old inventor had spread the tail of his frock coat like a sail and was in full flight toward the abyss of night. 'Do you mean to say,' shouted the saint as he caught up with him, 'that you actually don't want to enter heaven...
...inventor turned and stared at him. 'I'll see you in hell first. ... Do you suppose I enjoyed seeing my life-work made trivial and ridiculous? I was an inventor ?it was my passion to use the tools of science for the service of mankind. I gave the world light?good light, cheap light. Is it my fault if they used it to outrage the beauty and peace of the night. ?to make a cheap bazaar out of every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute...