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...office in the Old Arcade Bldg., Cleveland, reporters listened to the low, kindly voice of a long-beloved citizen-Charles Francis Brush, 79, six feet tall, big of frame, bushy of eyebrows, world-famed physicist, inventor of the arc light. He answered questions concerning the $500,000 foundation he had just endowed...
...position of Packard in the fine car field is largely the work of Alvan Macauley. He began as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. A good friend, Edward Rector,* recommended him to the National Cash Register Co. as a patent attorney. There, he soon turned himself into an inventor and engineer. Later, he went to the American Arithmometer Co. and turned it into the potent Burroughs Adding Machine Co. In 1910, when Packard was making four-cylinder cars, 2,000 a year, Mr. Macauley became general manager. James Ward
Charles Lanier Lawrance,, inventor of the Wright Whirlwind motor, president of Wright Aeronautical Corp...
...Inventor White, satisfied, took the machine back to his laboratory for further study. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, army aviator and flying instructor, his stern mistress is aerodynamics. Quietly, persistently he has worked to prove his theory that a bicycle, like a bird, can gain forward momentum by upward strokes of wings...
...problem of flying through the air by foot power, for a minute and a half at least, seems solved. There remains the problem of how to get started. At present the automobile acts as starter. Later Inventor White plans to take off from hillsides after installing a two and a half horsepower compressed air motor to get him up and give the 100 "wing flaps per minute necessary for flight...