Word: inventors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wedgwood was primarily a businessman with an inventor's mind; it was almost an accident that he also had an artist's eye. He never got beyond the three Rs in school; when he was 14 he went to work for an elder brother as a potter's apprentice. On his own, he began a series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate...
Cruel & Unusual. In Providence, Inventor Vincent de Cesaris was working on a burglar alarm which would emit the recorded shrieks of Cinemactress Lauren Bacall and Chanteuse Hildegarde...
Died. Perry Titus Wells Hale, 69, All-America fullback at Yale in 1900; of a heart ailment; in Portland, Conn. Blinded by an explosion in 1913, he learned to read Braille, became a successful inventor and insurance...
Left by the late John R. Gregg, inventor of Gregg Shorthand: more than...
...Toiled Horses. The co-inventor, developer, majority stockholder and president of Technicolor, Kalmus is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (after which Technicolor was named). He was a professor for several years before he got interested in color photography. With two other M.I.T. graduates, he worked-out a crude color method in 1914, bought out his discouraged partners soon after...