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...making of a mechanical man, a Robot, has intrigued the minds of men for centuries, but only now, in the twentieth century, has man stopped merely talking of it and actually constructed a talking, moving, automaton," said Captain W. H. Richards, the famous inventor, to a representative of the CRIMSON in a recent interview...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robot Soon to Supplant Humans in Purely Mechanical Tasks Inventor Predicts--Has Already Shown Signs of Intelligence | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...notable trunk improvement, the wardrobe trunk was well received; soon other companies were making trunks of the wardrobe type. For a time, Innovation, the pioneer, remained the leader. Eventually, however, Oshkosh, Hartmann and other trunk companies became more potent in the field. Finally, in 1924, Innovation had a renovation. Inventor Bonsall turned over the direction of the company to its present head, Anthony J. Trentacoste, who has been an Innovation trunk-man for 22 years and is responsible for the present expansion policy. Mr. Bonsall is now Director of International Interests of the Dewatered Products Combination, a chemical organization with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Innovations | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...much was readily discovered, but the real secret remained unanswered. Was the whole scheme the plot of a lunatic inventor, or was it merely the result of a process of natural selection? No one can ever know, for Mucilage, realizing the danger to humanity and education that would exist if the mechanism were left in existence, burned it part by part in his furnace the same night. As it dissolved into ashes and smoke, there perished with it the first and only Ghost of Memorial Hall...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

Died. Baron Karl von Skoda, 51, inventor of the Skoda howitzer (bane of Liege, Antwerp, Verdun); in Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Died. Joseph Willard Legg, 41, famed expert in oscillography (wave phenomena), inventor of the osiso (portable oscillograph) and the polar high-speed camera. Westinghouse associate; of pneumonia; in Wilkinsburg, Pa. With his camera, which takes 3,000 pictures a second, Inventor Legg discovered that lightning flashes are a series of complex spirals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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