Word: inventors
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Archipenko's father was a mildly successful inventor in the Russian city of Kiev, and invention has held a fascination for Archipenko all his life. While the father thought of an invention as a mechanical problem, the son saw it also as an esthetic one, an assemblage of forms. By the time he moved to Paris at the age of 21, young Archipenko was not only a trained engineer but an accomplished sculptor as well...
...paragraphs are hard to sell because editors are accustomed to swiping them." Vaughan is proudest of one of his paragraphs that was widely plagiarized and wound up as a footnote to history: "One day I wrote that President Millard Fillmore had lent encouragement to Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and that out of gratitude Morse had named the characters of the Morse code, dot and dash, after Fillmore's children, Dorothy and Dashiell. That turned up in a national magazine [Coronet] as a perfectly straight bit of historical fact. It isn't given...
...command words such as plus and minus. But this is no mean feat. Earlier attempts to make machines recognize spoken words have run into trouble because they tried to copy the human ear, which analyzes the complicated mixture of sound frequencies in human speech. IBM Engineer William C. Dersch, inventor of Shoebox, thinks that this is like designing an airplane by copying a bird's feathers. His machine does not depend on sound frequencies; it recognizes words by listening for their "asymmetry," an esoteric quality of speech that human ears cannot distinguish but that Shoebox finds as clear...
Seaborg is married to the former secretary of the late Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, one of his campus colleagues at Berkeley, inventor of the cyclotron and a Nobel laureate. Seaborg and his wife agreed that it would be nice to have a family of six children-and they have six, including one boy who was calmly and tidily delivered by his father. With characteristic resourcefulness Glenn Seaborg had already studied obstetrics and knew exactly what to do in such an emergency. Such scientific foresight should serve him well in his present...
...this, the brighter students, though short on the three Rs, get a disturbing sophistication. "I couldn't go back to public school," said one boy. "My teachers didn't understand me." Another, asked why he took no interest in mathematics if he wished to become an inventor, said: "I'll get mechanical brains to do that kind of stuff...