Word: inventors
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Died. Theodore H. Barth, 75, co-inventor (with the late Carl L. Norden) of World War II's famed Norden bombsight, a New York-born engineer who started collaborating with the older, more inspired Norden in 1923 and in 1939 under Navy commission lifted off the drawing board and into production the compact (12-in. by 19-in.), though enormously complex, bombsight that in the final phase used only two settings, gave U.S. bombardiers their much-touted "pickle-barrel" accuracy; from a duodenal ulcer; in Wareham, Mass...
Died. Max Kiss, 84, inventor of Ex-Lax, the world's first and still largest selling (1966 company sales: over $10 million) palatable purgative, a Hungarian immigrant who worked his way through pharmacy college, then proceeded to rescue countless kiddies from the ghastly grasp of castor oil by mixing a tasteless powder called phenolphthalein and chocolate flavoring into Ex-Lax, a name he adapted from a Hungarian parliamentary term (ex lex), meaning an extraordinary suspension of governmental activity; of a heart attack; in Atlantic Beach...
...language, over the centuries, has become divided into more than 500 separate dialects, some of which are among the world's most complex and include as many as four genders of nouns declinable into as many as eight cases (v. six in Latin). He is also the inventor of such simple but effective instruments as the boomerang and the womera, a slinglike device for launching spears...
...will be in regular service across the English Channel by 1968, making their runs at speeds as high as 85 m.p.h. By the end of 1970, the company expects to have developed 300-to 400-ton air-cushion ships that will be capable of operating on the open seas. Inventor Cockerell visualizes a 10,000-ton atomic-powered craft that will cross the Atlantic at high speeds with 2,000 passengers aboard...
Died. Vice Admiral Charles B. Momsen, 70, U.S. submarine expert and inventor of the Momsen lung for underwater escapes, who in 1928 devised the first successful escape device by rigging a mask to a rubberized bag of oxygen, testing it himself before it became standard equipment on all U.S. subs; of pneumonia; in St. Petersburg...