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...inventor of efficiency...
...protean changefulness. Everything was alive, and everything was nothing, in so far as its seeming reality was concerned. And yet everything was everything but still capable of being undermined, changed, improved, or come at in some hitherto undreamed-of-way-even by so humble a creature as himself, an inventor-and used as a chained force, if only one knew how. ... He had become conscious of anterior as well as ulterior forces and immensities and fathomless wells of wisdom and energy, and had enslaved a minute portion of them, that was all. But not here! Oh, no. Later...
...Young White, a New York inventor with 185 patents to his credit, recently proposed a third method which he calls...
...inventor, a Washington (D.C.) nurse named Adda May Allen, got the idea while watching premature babies at Columbia Hospital. She observed that sucking on a bottle often exhausted her little patients. As a partial vacuum develops in the bottle, a baby sometimes has to fight a collapsed nipple. Nurse Allen decided that what was needed was a bottle with collapsible sides which would close on the vacuum as the milk was drawn...
...Inventor Land's speedup process takes all the steps at the same time. An ordinary commercial film with an opaque back is exposed in the usual way. The photographer pulls it out of the camera along with a sheet of special paper. Attached to the paper is a "pod" (containing a viscous chemical mixture) which is broken when it passes two small rollers. The chemicals are spread evenly between film and paper, sticking them closely together (see diagram...