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Died. Jesse Wilford Reno, 85, inventor in 1892 of the inclined elevator (a forerunner of the modern Escalator), son of Civil War General Jesse Lee Reno, who gave his name to Nevada's notorious "Biggest Little City in the World"; after long illness; in Pelham Manor...
...Working with such unusual accessories as canary birds, guppies and nervous women, Inventor S. Young White is studying the effects...
...shooting party" in Boston's Algonquin club last week, Host Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr., president of Johnson Automatics, Inc., introduced his latest "weapon"-an indoor target gun. With it, big (6 ft. 4 in.), handsome Mel Johnson, inventor of the Johnson semi-automatic rifle and machine gun, hopes to bring the rifle range into every home...
...prosecute the charlatans who "invent" such gadgets, Food & Drug has to get legal evidence-from clinical tests, from physicians, or from the families of patients who have been harmed or killed. Prosecution is rarely easy. Inventor Ghadiali, for one, escaped with a $20,000 fine and an injunction to get out of business...
Died. Col. William J. L. Lyster, 77, retired U.S. Army doctor, inventor (1916) of the "Lyster Bag," a large, rubberized, udder-like canvas container from which soldiers in both World Wars drew thoroughly purified, highly unpalatable water; in Washington...