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...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...
...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...