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Died. Herman Doehler, 92, inventor of modern die-casting, who in 1906 patented a process for injecting molten metal under pressure between the halves of a steel die that proved quicker and more precise than hand-poured sand castings, thus paving the way for mass production of all manner of products and making Doehler Die Casting Co. (later Doehler-Jarvis) the biggest in the field; of uremia; in Manhattan...
Dartmouth's offense is traditionally hard to stop because of strong lines and a bewildering variety of offensive formations. Blackman's club uses all the varietes of the T-formation, and the coach also bills himself as the inventor of the "V" formation, with the fullback playing just a step in back of the line for better blocking power. Against Boston University this year, Dartmouth ran out of nine different offensive formations in its first nine plays...
Died. Games Slayter, 67, inventor of Fiberglas; of a heart attack; in Columbus. A recently retired vice president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Slayter developed a straw-thick glass fiber for air filters in 1931, after seven more years of research came up with the fine, flexible "glass wool" now used for everything from draperies to boat hulls, winning his company more than 130 lucrative patents...
Died. William Geer, 88, inventor of new uses for rubber, a onetime B.F. Goodrich research vice president who retired to work on his own in 1925, at one time or another held 40 patents, among them the first successful aircraft deicer, thick strips of pulsating rubber that fitted over the leading edge of the wings and shook off storm-cloud ice as quickly as it formed, a device that after 30 years is still used on many prop-driven aircraft, but not on the big jets; after a long illness; in Ithaca...
During a 50-year career, Inventor-Industrialist Sherman Fairchild, 68, has tinkered successfully with everything from aerial cameras to semiconductors...