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Rumanian-born Henri Coanda, 68, a successful inventor who lives in Paris, designed a primitive turbine-engine plane in 1909 and a scale-model saucer in 1947. But his great contribution to the art of making flying saucers was the principle he discovered in 1937: curving one side of a nozzle will deflect a jet blast to follow the curved side...
...whirring, horse-drawn reaper lurched through a field of grain on a Virginia farm one day in 1831. Beside it marched two men, one white, one black. The white man was Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the first practical reaper. The Negro was his slave Jo Anderson, whose devoted work had helped perfect the machine. In the 123 years since, Inventor McCormick's International Harvester Co. has not forgotten the way its founder and Jo Anderson worked together. This week, in Manhattan, the National Urban League honored International Harvester with its "Industrial Statesmanship" Award for the company's steady...
...tube system; his superheterodyne circuit, developed in 1918 while serving in France, is still the basic circuit of AM radio. In 1939, he perfected a method for eliminating static (now known as FM). A professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University for the last 20 years, the earnest, driving inventor earned millions of dollars in patent royalties, died a rich...
Died. John Daniel Rust, 61, onetime migrant worker who, with his brother Mack, devised the first successful mechanical cotton picker (1927); of a heart attack; in Pine Bluff, Ark. When Inventor Rust demonstrated his machine (which did the work of 50 to 100 field hands) in 1936, depression-weary Southerners feared it would cause unemployment, refused to use it on a large scale. Undaunted, Rust kept improving his machine, in 1949 put it into mass production, soon harvested a long-awaited fortune...
...other optical aids to destruction. But between the wars, it achieved its greatest name and fame with such peacetime products as telescopes, binoculars, microscopes and planetarium equipment. At the top of the combine today-and responsible for the rebuilding of Zeiss-are two crusty septuagenarians: Walter Bauersfeld, 72, inventor of the planetarium and a 46-year Zeissman; and Paul Henrichs, 71, who joined the company in 1901 and was longtime boss of its British operations. East & West. Zeiss's postwar comeback started from scratch, after the U.S. occupation forces pulled back from Jena and the Russians took over...