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...House", in case there is some doubt as to its nature but the Vagabond will not attempt to compete with Mr. Fuller in the explanation of this remarkable structure. Suffice it to say that he is as certain, after Mr. Fuller's lectures of last year, as is the inventor himself, that the model building represents a principle which is bound to have a tremendous influence on the architecture and construction of the future; in fact, to such an extent is he intrigued that he will probably return to the second lecture at 3.30 in the evening...
Vacuum. Reputedly the oldest of oil companies in existence, Vacuum was founded in 1866, seven years after the first commercial production of petroleum, by Matthew Ewing, inventor, and Hiram B. Everest, grocer, on the basis of a vacuum distillation process which Mr. Ewing maintained could turn petroleum 100% into kerosene. This was a valuable claim because the lighter distillations, such as are used for gasoline, were in those days dumped into rivers as waste-products. When the process failed, Mr. Ewing dropped out, but Mr. Everest developed Vacuum Harness Oil, sold it in second-hand oyster cans...
...coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked up on the Stab Register. Stabbing the floor, another foil blade or hilt, does not register. Inventor Massard insisted last week that it is impossible for fencers equipped with "Massard's Stab Register" to short circuit or electrocute themselves...
...Savannah, Ga., in 1904, the natives couldn't call me Colonel because I wasn't an army man; they couldn't call me judge because I wasn't a lawyer so they compromised on Doctor. I'm a chem ist by profession and an inventor by inclination...
Submarines. Ever since 1898 when U. S. inventor John P. Holland followed the research of countless other experimenters and built the first practicable modern submarine, submarines and submarine-warfare have been an important international problem. Last week U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, representing the country which owns the greatest fleet of effective submarines in commission (76), the country most opposed to their use, led the conference's half-hearted attempt to abolish them. Said...