Word: inventors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists agree with Dr. Libby. Most vocal is Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence of the University of California, Nobel Prizewinner (1939) and inventor of the cyclotron, who finds it "beyond my comprehension" that any reputable scientist should worry about fallout from weapons tests. He thinks the tests could continue forever without damage...
Into the Armco Steel Corp. plant at Houston this week rolled three carloads of iron smelted by a radical new process. Developed by a Hungarian-born inventor, Julius Madaras, and financed by Oilman Clint Murchison and others, the process eliminates the blast furnace and promises to smelt iron cheaper and faster...
Refinements still to be made by Zworykin's technicians include modifying the capsule so that it can transmit information on internal temperatures and acidity, and reducing its size. One refinement ruled out (partly because of bad lighting conditions ) by the inventor of edible FM: intestinal television...
Winter Swimming. Inventor Walter Bird of Buffalo demonstrated a plastic cover for winterizing outdoor swimming pools. The pool cover is supported by raising inside air pressure slightly with an electric blower. Bird says that sunshine makes the water comfortably warm in fall and spring, but recommends a water heater in northern climates in midwinter. Estimated cost of cover, which is stored away in summer, is less than $1.50 per square foot of area enclosed...
...book glorifying President Chester Alan Arthur, whose plain life left plenty of room for fictional embroidery. The object: to demonstrate "brainstorming" (TIME, Feb. 18), a technique of group creativity that joins a lot of brains into assault on a single problem or concept. The brainstormers-two professors, an inventor, a hospital director and Cartoonist Al Capp-also laid down some amusing spoofs, e.g., a Chinese friend comforts Arthur in a miserable boyhood moment, thus laying the groundwork for his presidential veto of the Chinese Exclusion...