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Died. Frederick Walker Baldwin, 66, pioneer Canadian airman, first British Empire subject to fly an airplane (March 12, 1908), onetime associate of Inventor Alexander Graham Bell; of a heart attack; in Baddeck...
...gases is it safe to watch the fires kindle. *The power of jet engines is measured in pounds of thrust. The propulsive horsepower developed varies with the speed. At 375 m.p.h., one pound of thrust equals one "thrust horsepower." * Spruce, tweedy Whittle, 41, comes nearest to being the inventor of the turbojet. Recently the British Labor government, with a grand Old Regime gesture, handed him a tax-free thank you of ?100,000. *Pronounced mack. Named after Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach...
...needs. Special rays replace sunlight in factories. Work is easy because the heaviest part is done by machines. Anyone who wants one can have an automobile." As time goes by, Teresa can even see herself entering the evening of life a "surgeon in a great clinic," and the inventor of "an important medicine...
Biggest & Fastest. All this is a far cry from the elevator seen by New Yorkers at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1853. The inventor, a New England master mechanic named Elisha Graves Otis, rode up & down in it, occasionally making the crowd gasp by cutting the elevator's rope cable with a knife. Others, as far back as Archimedes, had built vertical hoists of one kind or another, but Otis was the first to build one with an automatic safety catch to keep it from falling. It was a kind of ratchet, like the gadget that prevents the spring...
...inventor, WGHF's W. G. H. Finch, claims the attachment will reproduce newspapers in either black & white, or full color, on untreated paper...