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Born: Albany 1891. Father was multimillionaire utility magnate, Thomas E. Murray Sr., inventor of heating and electrical equipment...
...result, on the eve of the U.S.-Sweden zone finals, made good gamesman Hopman a likely candidate to go down in Gamesman history with such famed experts as Frith-Morteroy (master of the art of Countering the Crock), Edward Grice (specialist in the Secondary Hamper), and Stephen Potter himself (inventor of the Jack Rivers Opening). It also left the U.S. singles line-up just where it was a month...
Like many an inventor, Custer is quick to brush off all future problems as mere "engineering details." Skeptical Air Force experts are waiting doubtfully for the results of further tests. But Taylorcraft, Inc. already has a channel wing ship on the drawing board...
...current issue of Radio-Electronics is a description of a French loud speaker that comes close to this ideal. It inventor, Paris-born Siegfried Klein, de cided that the vibrating parts of a loud speaker should be replaced by some device that would turn electrical signals directly into sound waves in the air. After many tries and failures, he developed his "lonophone," a complicated device whose basic principle is simple...
...life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself . . . The plague, the famine, the earthquake . . . were too spasmodic in their action; the tiger and crocodile were too easily satiated and not cruel enough: something more . . . destructive was needed; and that something was Man, the inventor of the rack, the stake, the gallows, the electric chair...