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...taciturn Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson made a deal with a shy, talkative inventor named Henry Ford. They both thought that a Ferguson-designed tractor, which had a hydraulic mechanism to raise and lower a plow automatically, would revolutionize agriculture. It didn't-exactly. But in the process the Ford Motor Co. made 250,000 Ferguson tractors, helped build Harry Ferguson Inc. into one of the biggest U.S. agricultural equipment companies...
...examined lots of death rays, which inventors claimed could melt rocks, kill animals at great distances. None met his specifications. Some were fakes; their inventors fled as soon as Dr. Murray hove in sight. Best performer: a heat-projecting gadget which, its inventor claimed, cooked a canary (in Spain) at 30 feet...
...inventor of the turbojet engine walked off the Queen Elizabeth last week, on his way to receive the U.S. Legion of Merit. Slim, smart Air Commodore Frank Whittle of the R.A.F. was brimming (in a reserved, don't-spill-a-drop British manner) with enthusiasm...
...front of a blackboard white with diagrams and equations, Nils Bohr, the inventor of the atom as it is conceived by theoretical physicists everywhere, brought an overflowing crowd in Mallin-krodt's Large Lecture Room up to date on. "The Present State of the Theory of Elemental Particles" yesterday...
Morton was not ether's inventor (it had been known since the 16th Century - in the 1830s, "ether frolics" were a popular substitute for drinking), nor even the first to use it in an operation.* But medical historians agree that Morton started the new era in surgery. Three months after his demonstration, surgeons on both sides of the Atlantic were giving ether; the screams and struggles of patients on the operating table had begun to subside...