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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, the Government announced that patent No. 2,540,144 had been granted to Engineer-Inventor Emery Stern for a device which will "automatically release" various scents from containers built into TV sets. Set off by electrical impulses, the odors are intended to be appropriate to the type of program, e.g., peach blossom for romance...
Died. Albert Summers Howell, 71, co-founder of Bell & Howell Co. (movie cameras), inventor, in moviemaking's pioneer days, of devices and techniques which took the flicker out of movies; in Chicago...
...stopped breathing. The Schaefer prone pressure method, which first-aiders know best, does the trick by forcing the air out of the lungs in rhythmic thrusts and relying on the body's elasticity to suck it back in again. A later method, developed in 1948 by Inventor John H. Emerson, operates on an opposite principle. Emerson's idea is to lift the patient's hips off the ground at regular intervals, thus lowering his diaphragm and making him breathe in. Exhalation follows naturally when the hips are lowered...
Although the results of Hirsh's experiments have been published, no companies have shown any interest yet. "They probably object to the idea because of the appearance angle," commented the inventor. The devices are each 3/4 inch square...