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...Ultrasonic vibrations of a ship's hull will keep the ship free of the mariner's ancient scourge, the barnacle, a British inventor announced last week. Birmingham Biochemist M.H.M. Arnold first rigged up a generator to make a bundle of thin metal plates vibrate at 25 kc., found that the plates were clean after long immersion in barnacle-infested waters. Next he fitted generator and plates to the hull of a barnacle-prone 17,000-ton liner. Union Castle, so the entire hull vibrated silently. After an 18-month voyage. Union Castle returned clean. So did a second...
...secret "revolutionary camera that will make press history." The "amazing camera," bragged the Herald Trib, takes a 160°, wide-angled picture, which the paper printed across 16 columns, i.e., two full newspaper pages. The camera mechanism, the Herald Trib continued, is so secret that only its inventor knows how it works, and he keeps it concealed in an "aluminum breadbox." The Trib said that other papers were dickering for the use of the camera...
Married. Arline Judge, 45, much-mated cinemactress; and Edward Cooper Heard, 40, inventor-businessman; she for the seventh time (among the others: Director Wesley Ruggles, tin-plate millionaire brothers Dan and Bob Topping), he for the second; in Las Vegas...
Died. Hannibal Choate Ford, 77, noted engineer-inventor, who helped the late Elmer Sperry perfect the Gyro-Compass (1911), during and after World War I developed the world's first mechanical control-computer for naval gunfire; of arteriosclerosis; in Kings Point...
Francis W. Davis '10, inventor of power steering, has given $50,000 to establish a fellowship in honor of Lionel S. Marks, Gordon MacKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, emeritus, who died enrolls to Mexico last Thursday...