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...this, a spectator on the roof, Eugene J. Houdry, 60, smiled proudly. In the late 1930s French-born Inventor Houdry made himself a millionaire, and created one of the biggest single advances in the oil industry's history, by his invention of the Houdry process of "catalytic cracking."* Now, Inventor Houdry had taken the stench out of Enamelstrip's ovens with some new catalytic magic performed in the company's chimneys...
Reinhold Rudenberg, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering, is also retiring. Rudenberg who has been at Harvard since 1939 is the inventor of the electron microscope. He is responsible for many of the basic theories relative to the operation of electric machinery and power systems...
Instead, Vickers, Inc. sold the mechanism for trucks, buses and construction machinery. Inventor Harry Vickers cashed in on a new hydraulic safety valve for machine tools, built up a fat business making hydraulic controls for Navy guns. In 1937, when the Sperry Corp. wanted to get into the hydraulics field, it had little choice but to buy out the Vickers company since it held most of the important patents...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...