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...from the King of Iraq . . . The letter you mention was a personal one to me from the King's aide-de-camp . . . asking me where he could obtain such a knife and also books on Western gunmen, etc. . . . As to the controversy over the name of the inventor of the knife, that was settled when my book Bowie Knife was published. A monument was raised to the inventor, James Black, more than half a century ago. The ashes of his old blacksmith shop, where he produced the knife, are covered by this monument in the town of Washington...
...Composer-inventor Effinger expects his biggest market to be the field of education. "Copies are being made in schools every day," he says, "making up examinations, making theses, and so on.'' He warns enthusiastic musical illiterates not to "expect a rush of composers suddenly to sit down behind desks with cigarettes dangling out of their mouths and begin pouring out a ream of symphonies on these machines. The Music Writer will simply be used instead of a pen when it comes to making finished copies...
...Fritz Zwicky of Caltech, astronomer, physicist and inventor, is one of the world's leading experts on jet propulsion. Early in World War II, he left astronomy and joined a group of scientists who founded Aerojet-General Corp. of Azusa, Calif. Zwicky became research director, and under his leadership Aerojet developed JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) for rocket blasting heavy-laden bombers into the air. After the war, Zwicky picked the brains of German rocket experts and did outstanding work on rockets, missiles, torpedoes and submarines. In 1949 he resigned as research director of Aerojet, but stayed...
...tractors, two mowers and a pair of hay rakes. Ford is working on a low-cost combine for medium-sized farms, a new corn picker that can be attached to the front of a standard four-wheeled tractor. Another new development: a machine called the Wonsover, which a Maine inventor named Herman Cohen will soon put into production. It was developed with the help of several companies (among them: U.S. Steel, Caterpillar Tractor, General Electric). Weighing ten tons, the Wonsover spans 240 sq. ft. of earth while a battery of hammers pulverizes the ground at the rate...
...electronic stethoscope, many times more sensitive than the ordinary acoustical type, has been developed by the Medical College of the State of South Carolina's Dr. Dale Groom and General Motors' famed Inventor-Consultant Charles F. Kettering. With it, the most minute heart sounds may be "watched" and converted into light waves on a TV screen...