Word: inventors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...motorist speed up to get through the intersection, but it has worked exactly the opposite. The light takes the pressure off the driver during that critical moment of approach." As a result of the test, Abilene will spend $5,900 for three more signals from its home-town inventor, James L. R. Hines, a longtime safety engineer for the Shell Oil Co. Houston plans to in stall 73 of them. And Hines, who spent nine years developing the system to "give a fellow a little better chance," has had inquiries from 19 foreign countries...
...true that many inventions will not have an obvious application, and that firms will not take the risk of developing the product without patent protection. The CRIMSON, however, failed to point out that President Kennedy's memorandum in 1963 specifically directed the federal agencies to grant patents to the inventor where exclusive ownership was necessary incentive to call forth risk capital to bring the invention to the point of practical application. Of the six patent bills pending before Congress in 1965, five, including Senator Long's bill, allow for this exception. Kenneth A. Plevan...
...17th century scientific investigation; well aware of it, Vermeer laid out his paintings in a wizardly arrangement of planes, lines, cubes and cones. He also used the camera obscura, a forerunner of photography. In all probability, he was introduced to it by his fellow townsman Anton van Leeuwenhoek, inventor of a microscope, pioneer in optical research, and thought by some critics to be the young scholar portrayed in The Astronomer...
With his Government grant, Gourdine plans to conduct further research on a novel generator that he already has working in small models. With no moving parts, without any need for water, and with only low-grade coal for energy, the New Jersey inventor's "electrogasdynamic" generator can, and does, produce electricity. The problem now is to make the EGD system work on a large scale and with greater efficiency...
...high voltage produced by Gourdine's generator is ideal for transmitting electricity over long lines with minimum loss of power. The small current, says the inventor, can be compensated by having many small EGD tubes connected in parallel with each other. Theoretically, it should work. To turn theory into practice may be something else again...