Word: inventors
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Instead, Vickers, Inc. sold the mechanism for trucks, buses and construction machinery. Inventor Harry Vickers cashed in on a new hydraulic safety valve for machine tools, built up a fat business making hydraulic controls for Navy guns. In 1937, when the Sperry Corp. wanted to get into the hydraulics field, it had little choice but to buy out the Vickers company since it held most of the important patents...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...
Perhaps the most lurid new system is that of the graphic thinker, particularly as demonstrated in the "graph for all occasions" (reproduced here). The feeling has been expressed that this graph can be used to prove almost anything. Its inventor does not himself know what it actually shows but is certain that it might prove all sorts of things. The graph uses letters, specifically Greek letters, to label its parts in order to retain the maximum number of possible meanings and to give it that scholarly tone, so important when attempting to baffle a grader. Under no circumstances should this...
...Austrian Inventor and Munitions Salesman Antoine Gazda (who "beat an undesirable alien rap and got out, with McGrath's assistance...