Word: inventors
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...height of his powers (he had just finished the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies), is a fascinating but vulgar and bombastic ode to Wellington's victory over Napoleon. Frankly composed to make money and originally intended for the panharmonicon, a sort of early stereo machine built by a German inventor in which nine different types of instruments were operated mechanically, the piece includes a rumbling God Save the King, an absurdly tinkling For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, an immense eruption of drums and other battle effects, with only an occasional hint of the true Beethoven (most contemporary...
This year U.S. corporations plan to spend 10.7% more for development of new products and processes, according to an American Management Association survey. The legendary starving inventor, trying in vain to get a hearing for his brainchild, is no more; he can hardly get any inventing done today for all the eager customers beating a pathway to his door, or corporations trying to hire him. Last week in Los Angeles, as in many another U.S. city, a task force set up by the Chamber of Commerce was out hunting down new inventions, forearmed with a list of manufacturers anxious...
...yarn, skillfully embroidered by Producer-Director George Pal and Scriptwriter David Duncan, brings up to date H. G. Wells's 1895 romance. Disheartened by the alarms of his time-Boer War news is bad-an idealistic London inventor, agreeably acted by Rod Taylor, constructs a machine able to move about in time (it bears a plaque reading "Manufactured by H. George Wells"). He invites some incredulous friends to hear his adventures at a dinner five days hence, then eases the throttle forward in search of peace and good will...
...this week's cover story on Sherman Fairchild's interests and other growth companies, TIME revisits some old friends. As early as 1936, we reported on a young inventor named Edwin H. Land and his polarized lens; in 1947 we noted the advent of Polaroid's remarkable 60-second camera before it was marketed. A $35 investment in Polaroid that year would now have grown to $862. Texas Instruments, now selling at 214¾, was the subject of an April 1957 story when it sold at about 20. A June 1954 story on Ampex pointed out that...
...magic lies in the man who lent it-and several other companies-his name: Sherman Mills Fairchild, 64. Fairchild talks about his present and future products with all the excitement of a 20-year-old with his first sports car. He is the epitome of the new scientist-businessman-inventor who is the driving force behind the success of the growth and glamour stocks. Cut from the same Yankee tinkerer mold as Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, he never got an engineering degree-yet has more than two dozen patents in his name. He flatly says, "I have...