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...inventor is Hollywood's versatile Ulrich L. ("Doc") Di Ghilini, professional magician, exposer of spiritualistic fakes and amateur art collector (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). After five years of experiments, in his garage and (after the neighbors complained) in a Beverly Hills furniture store, Di Ghilini developed a recording machine which embosses (presses) a sound groove in a disc instead of cutting it, which is the accepted current method. His embossing system makes it possible to run a record at much slower speed than on the usual phonograph...
...rising machine" that dumped its victims out of bed with split-second accuracy. His next stop was the University of Wisconsin, where fellow students crowded his room to see such contraptions as his "student desk," which whirred and banged a rotation of books at 15-minute intervals under its inventor's nose...
...Bush, the inventor of a better-than-human calculator, M.I.T.'s famed differential analyzer, was impressed by the ingenious mechanical brains (directing gunfire, for example) developed during the war. Dr. Bush has decided that scientists should now devote themselves to organizing the vast amount of uncollated information about the world. There is no mechanical substitute, he concedes, for mature thought. But he suggests that a lot can still be done with microfilm and the electronic tube...
...Paris last week a trembling, white-haired old man stood before the bar of justice. Georges Claude, 74, world-famed inventor, has sometimes been called the ''Edison of France." He invented neon lights, was a pioneer in the liquefaction of rare gases, the extraction of atmospheric nitrogen, the synthesis of ammonia. The charge against him : collaboration with the Germans...
...witness said: "Claude's mentality is that of the inventor, which is closely akin to a paranoiac mentality as shown by errors of judgment, exaltation of one's personality, pride and vanity and social inadaptability...