Word: inventors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the King of Iraq . . . The letter you mention was a personal one to me from the King's aide-de-camp . . . asking me where he could obtain such a knife and also books on Western gunmen, etc. . . . As to the controversy over the name of the inventor of the knife, that was settled when my book Bowie Knife was published. A monument was raised to the inventor, James Black, more than half a century ago. The ashes of his old blacksmith shop, where he produced the knife, are covered by this monument in the town of Washington...
...tractors, two mowers and a pair of hay rakes. Ford is working on a low-cost combine for medium-sized farms, a new corn picker that can be attached to the front of a standard four-wheeled tractor. Another new development: a machine called the Wonsover, which a Maine inventor named Herman Cohen will soon put into production. It was developed with the help of several companies (among them: U.S. Steel, Caterpillar Tractor, General Electric). Weighing ten tons, the Wonsover spans 240 sq. ft. of earth while a battery of hammers pulverizes the ground at the rate...
...electronic stethoscope, many times more sensitive than the ordinary acoustical type, has been developed by the Medical College of the State of South Carolina's Dr. Dale Groom and General Motors' famed Inventor-Consultant Charles F. Kettering. With it, the most minute heart sounds may be "watched" and converted into light waves on a TV screen...
...Ultrasonic vibrations of a ship's hull will keep the ship free of the mariner's ancient scourge, the barnacle, a British inventor announced last week. Birmingham Biochemist M.H.M. Arnold first rigged up a generator to make a bundle of thin metal plates vibrate at 25 kc., found that the plates were clean after long immersion in barnacle-infested waters. Next he fitted generator and plates to the hull of a barnacle-prone 17,000-ton liner. Union Castle, so the entire hull vibrated silently. After an 18-month voyage. Union Castle returned clean. So did a second...
...secret "revolutionary camera that will make press history." The "amazing camera," bragged the Herald Trib, takes a 160°, wide-angled picture, which the paper printed across 16 columns, i.e., two full newspaper pages. The camera mechanism, the Herald Trib continued, is so secret that only its inventor knows how it works, and he keeps it concealed in an "aluminum breadbox." The Trib said that other papers were dickering for the use of the camera...