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Elected. Carl Ewald Grunsky of San Francisco; to be President of the American Engineering Council; in Washington. Birthday. Inventor Thomas Alva Edi son; at Fort Myers, Fla. Date...
Inasmuch as the patent laws provide that only the first, original and sole (or joint) inventor (s) can "patent" a new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, it is not entirely clear how Iowa patented this process...
Gary. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 69, of Brooklyn, may well have a medal named for him someday. A prolific inventor (gyrocompass, gyrostabilizer, airplane "Mecaviator," superpower searchlights, airway beacons), he holds over 400 patents, some 12 important awards and decorations. Last week, honoring his method of nondestructive detection of flaws in steel rails and bars, he was first to receive the American Iron & Steel Institute Medal, given by the Institute in memory of its late Founder-President Elbert Henry Gary...
Because they are not his friends, Il Duce saw no reason for including among his "Immortals" the inventor of wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi; the foremost Italian philosopher, Benedetto Croce, or that orchidaceous but heroic poet-conqueror who stole Fiume for grateful Italy, Gabriele D'Annunzio...
...churchwomen met in the Hartman Theatre, named after the late Dr. Samuel S. Hartman, inventor of "Peruna," sensational oldtime patent medicine (which once contained about 40% alcohol). Other meetings were held in hotels, schools, theatres. Layman after layman, pastor after pastor, youth after youth, expounded world peace, church unity, Prohibition, etc., etc. As the days passed, it appeared that the convention was definitely Modernistic. Vigorously so, progressive, for example, was Samuel S. Wyer, baldish, mustachioed Columbus consulting engineer, who addressed the laymen thus: "I doubt if there is any other book which ranges from such sublime heights to such degrading...