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test Run. Last week, in a run through the Lake Washington ship canal and across placid Lake Union, Inventor Ross put on a demonstration of his "underwater radar" that left Navy sonar experts stuttering with excitement. On his cathode-ray screen the observers could easily locate a submerged steel drum 1,200 ft. away, a garbage can at 900 ft., sand bars, dock pilings, fish nets and ropes...
...families wealthy through lumbering and mining, turned out carriages and stoves and let its arteries harden in dignity. But beer and dignity were not its destiny. Charles Brady King chugged down a street in a horseless carriage. Three months later came Henry Ford in another ugly contraption. A young inventor named Ransom E. Olds scraped up capital to underwrite the revolution. The explosion of the internal-combustion engine woke up slumbering Detroit. The engine put a nation on wheels, tracked the nation with highways, filled the countryside with flashy billboards, hot-dog stands, gas fumes, and, in a climactic outpouring...
Died. Arnold Schoenberg, 76, famed composer, pedagogue and musical theorist, inventor of the twelve-tone system; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles (see Music...
Cotton Caravan. For cotton-spraying time in the Sudan, a British inventor has devised a camel-borne spraying machine, which he demonstrated at the International Agricultural Conference in Sussex last week. The hand-operated pump fitted with two nozzles can spray crops in desert areas where no tractor-drawn equipment can be used. A dromedary named Joan (see cut) was drafted from the Chessington Zoo for last week's demonstration...
What the audience was seeing was Cinerama, the 13-year-old brainchild of Inventor Fred Waller of Huntington, N.Y. A new variation on the old theme of three-dimensional movies, Cinerama does not reproduce such old tricks as the baseball thrown straight into the spectators' laps; rather, it seems to pull the audience into the picture. And it has managed to eliminate some bothersome three-dimensional snags: spectators do not need to wear special glasses, nor must they sit in a narrow area directly before the screen...