Word: inventors
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...different level. The son of an impoverished tobacco farmer, he worked his way through high school, enlisted in the Navy (he still bears a permanent souvenir of his Navy days: a forearm rose tattoo). One day in 1911, aboard the battleship U.S.S. Delaware, Chief Electrician Morgan helped an inventor named Elmer Sperry install a new gyroscopic compass for a test. Sperry was so impressed that he hired Morgan, who worked up through the Sperry ranks, became president in 1928, expanded the firm into a wide field (e.g., guided missiles, hay balers), and retired in 1952. A working, organization Democrat, Morgan...
Rumanian-born Henri Coanda, 68, a successful inventor who lives in Paris, designed a primitive turbine-engine plane in 1909 and a scale-model saucer in 1947. But his great contribution to the art of making flying saucers was the principle he discovered in 1937: curving one side of a nozzle will deflect a jet blast to follow the curved side...
Steadily, uranium fever mounted. Some 1,300 claims were filed on lands in the surrounding desert and mountains. Outsiders came to Kanab to prospect, and among them was Leroy Albert Wilson, 62, a brawler, an inventor, a Mormon excommunicated for defending polygamy and the leader of a strange band of men and women. Last week Wilson was found on his left side, lying on a sandy, sunny slope, a Geiger counter still clicking in his right hand. Six .45-caliber slugs had torn great holes in his back and head. He was the first man to be dry-gulched...
...Pretty Tune. The typewriter's future was obscure in its infancy. Not even Inventor Sholes had faith in it. But Promoter James Densmore. like Sholes a former newspaperman, believed in it "from the topmost corner of my hat to the bottommost head of the nails of my boot heels." He wanted to play Sholes' "literary piano" to the tune of a million dollars...
...whirring, horse-drawn reaper lurched through a field of grain on a Virginia farm one day in 1831. Beside it marched two men, one white, one black. The white man was Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the first practical reaper. The Negro was his slave Jo Anderson, whose devoted work had helped perfect the machine. In the 123 years since, Inventor McCormick's International Harvester Co. has not forgotten the way its founder and Jo Anderson worked together. This week, in Manhattan, the National Urban League honored International Harvester with its "Industrial Statesmanship" Award for the company's steady...