Word: inventors
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...timekeeper for a San Francisco construction company, rose to general superintendent in a year, soon was out building houses on his own. Hayes believed that the way to find a market and a profit was to build houses cheaply on an assembly-line basis. A skilled inventor, he patented more than a dozen devices, including collapsible steel forms, that enabled him to put up entire houses in a few days. He once put one up in 34 minutes as a stunt...
Died. Georges Claude. 89. called "the Edison of France," a pioneer in the use of liquid air and rare gases, inventor in 1910 of the neon light; of a heart attack; in St.Cloud. France. A political royalist, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1945 for wartime collaboration with the Nazis, was paroled 4½ years later...
...city planning is neither a licensed architect, a city official, nor an engineer. He is Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon Robert W. Dowling. who at 64 bosses the $53 million City Investing Co., and whose conception of his role makes him an amateur do-it-yourself designer, an inventor and innovator, and a patron of the arts on a grand scale. Bowling's purpose is simple enough. He wants 1) to make money, while 2) enhancing the U.S. landscape with well-planned developments. Says Dowling: "I always think about our place in history. The great question is, will...
...most poignantly comic weirdie of the lot was Waldemar Schindl, a soulful inventor living in an isolated hamlet in the Austrian Alps. When King visited him in the late '20s, Schindl unveiled a machine that looked like a badly made cast-iron bird cage. The contraption gave an enormous heave and one of the wires stabbed at a piece of paper. It suddenly dawned on King that "that poor old chowder-head had - all by himself up here in this moonstruck eyrie - reinvented the typewriter...
Perhaps most notable of all are the scientists: Physicist John Bardeen, who shared a Nobel prize for perfecting the transistor; Astronomer James G. Baker, inventor of a satellite-tracking camera; Chemist R. B. Woodward, synthesizer of quinine and reserpine; Physicist Ivan A. Getting, World War II radar pioneer and now a vice president of Raytheon; Physicist James B. Fisk, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the West's chief expert on atom-test bans in the Geneva negotiations with the Russians...