Word: inventors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...R.C.A.'s inventor, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, has designed a system he thinks fills the greatest need of U.S. driving...
...three-story glass, steel, and concrete structure was built on funds from the bequest of Gordon McKay. An inventor who made great fortunes during the Civil War, McKay left the University 15 million dollars in 1906 with the stipulation that it was to go to furthering the progress of applied science...
...novelty, mainly because Hollywood had merely thrown things at the customers and failed to provide anything much to look at through the polaroid glasses. Said one California sage: "Every studio in Hollywood agrees that the 3-D vogue is practically dead." Even the news from Washington that an, inventor had patented polaroid sun glasses that can be changed with the flick of a finger into 3-D spectacles failed to cheer the true stereoscopists...
...same week the Post Office Department, noting "substantial" disagreement as to the battery-rejuvenation merits of AD-X2, withdrew a fraud order against it. Crowed Jess M. Ritchie, dauntless co-inventor and promoter of AD-X2: "We're ready to pour it into every battery in the country...
...battle is shaping up among farm implement makers. While Ford is preparing to jump in with a big new line of farm machinery (TIME, Aug. 10), British Inventor Harry Ferguson, once Henry Ford's "only partner," is merging with Canada's Massey-Harris. With five plants in the U.S., four in Canada, and others in England, Scotland, South Africa, France and Germany, the new company, Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd., will be the world's third largest farm implement maker, and plans to challenge International Harvester and Deere for first place...