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...Shearer appeared on the Washington scene in 1924 as a naval expert, the inventor of a one-man torpedo. When the U. S. S. Washington was towed off the Virginia Capes for sinking by airplane bombs, he rushed into court, vainly sought an injunction to prevent the Navy from destroying this vessel under the terms of Washington Arms Treaty. Later he admitted that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Anglophobe, had paid the cost of that empty exploit...
Chunky, jovial, rich Juan de la Cierva, 33, inventor of the autogiro, debarked at Manhattan last week, met his serious, rich friend Harold F. Pitcairn, 32, and went down to the latter's city, Bryn Athyn, Pa., near Philadelphia. There the Spaniard, who lives in England most of the time, stripped off his coat and near the Swedenborgian Church which Mr. Pitcairn and his two brothers are building according to their late father's bequest, made the first autogiro flight...
...inventor, joke-loving, played with his machine. He flew her toward a fence and, just as he might have crashed, pulled her into a stall. She hovered comfortably a few feet from the ground. He got her high and flew her to about 90 m.p.h. At will he held her almost stationary in the air. His landing made spectators laugh. It was like a domestic goose hopping from a fence with wings spread, feet and tail reaching for the ground. He deflected the autogiro's tail planes downward. They brushed against the ground just before the wheels. Then...
Died. Dr. Edward Beech Craft, 47, of Hackensack, N. J., electrical engineer and apparatus inventor, executive vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; at Hackensack...
...interests then so ably played up in press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors. No inventor he, the Steinmetz theoretical work found fruition in three thick red volumes, Alternating Current. His popular book is America and the New Epoch, showing why he was pro-German in the War, also how the merger of small companies into a trust was a step toward Socialism. After indulging...