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...Armory and Arsenal at Springfield, Mass, retired an old civil service employee who had spent the past 34 years there working on rifles. At a testimonial dinner, shy, Canadian-born John C. Garand, 65, inventor of the Army's basic M-1 (Garand) rifle, was given, as a farewell trophy, the millionth M-1 which was made during World War II (over 4,000,000 have been made for the Army). Said Gunsmith Garand, looking at his famous product: "I've never felt bad about designing the rifle even though its only real...
Lindsley's method in these experiments was an adaptation of the technique developed by B. F. Skinner, professor of Psychology, and inventor of the "Box" which bears his name. Through the study of pigeons and rats, Skinner and other experimental psychologists, have discovered means for controlling an animal's behavior, and certain laws to which that behavior conforms. It was found that an animal, who has to perform a certain task for his food will work at a highly constant pace, when he is rewarded with food at an arbitrary, erratic rate...
...awards are financed from the estate of New England inventor Gordon McKay '96. McKay bequeathed $15,000,000 to support Harvard engineering studies in 1903, but the University has just recently obtained the funds...
...aqualung, of which Cousteau was co-inventor, has opened to the "men fish" depths which only the imagination of Jules Verne has explored before. "The Silent World" opens them to the reader as well
...Silent World, a French navy captain named Jacques-Yves Cousteau, inventor of the "aqualung," describes his underwater adventures with a scientist's care and a poet's feeling...