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...Earthbound Greeks. Sikorsky the man allows his mind to range widely when he meditates upon these mysteries inherent in Sikorsky the designer and inventor. He cannot understand, for instance, why man's conquest of the air was not begun by the early Greeks or Romans. Both, he feels, were perfectly capable of inventing and flying gliders; both, to his way of thinking, produced minds which could have grasped the scientific conquests involved; both had carpenters and artisans capable of building such machines, and both made the fabrics, paints and materials needed for their construction. "But they didn't," he sadly...
...building it, the inventor drew heavily on the theories of others, but putting them together mechanically with some of his own and making them practical was an awesome task. Most earlier helicopter builders (like some today) killed torque by using sets of two or more rotors which revolved in opposite directions. But Sikorsky put his faith in one rotor. "One woman in the kitchen is fine," he says. "Two women in the kitchen get in each other's way.'' He decided to keep his fuselage from spinning simply by hanging a vertical fan on an outrigger at the tail...
...R.C.A.'s inventor, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, has designed a system he thinks fills the greatest need of U.S. driving...
...three-story glass, steel, and concrete structure was built on funds from the bequest of Gordon McKay. An inventor who made great fortunes during the Civil War, McKay left the University 15 million dollars in 1906 with the stipulation that it was to go to furthering the progress of applied science...
...novelty, mainly because Hollywood had merely thrown things at the customers and failed to provide anything much to look at through the polaroid glasses. Said one California sage: "Every studio in Hollywood agrees that the 3-D vogue is practically dead." Even the news from Washington that an, inventor had patented polaroid sun glasses that can be changed with the flick of a finger into 3-D spectacles failed to cheer the true stereoscopists...