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...recording set the size of a folding camera, completely "built-in" save for a mike on a cord, has joined the parade of postwar dream-gadgets for the civilian. Powered by a battery, the recorder weighs only three pounds, picks up "anything the ear can hear." Inventor Marvin Camras of Chicago's Armour Research Foundation thinks "the average price ought to be about...
Radio and newspaper reporters are the likeliest peacetime users of this midget. Other possible customers: traveling businessmen, detectives, blackmailers. "And students who want to sleep in the classroom," Inventor Camras suggests...
...Bailey bridge-building, U.S. engineers practiced day after day through the pre-invasion summer of 1943, laying Bailey bridges across the Thames and tearing them down again. Today, under perfect conditions, a team of 115 engineers can build a five-span Bailey Bridge in 32 minutes flat. And its inventor, 42-year-old Donald Bailey, wears the Order of the British Empire...
Born. To Leopold Godowsky Jr., 44, co-inventor of Kodachrome color film and son of the late famed pianist-composer; and Frances Gershwin Godowsky, 37, sister of the late Composer George Gershwin: twin daughters, their third and fourth children; in Manhattan. Names: Georga (after her uncle) and Nayna. Weights...
Human Design. The U.S. pioneers in jet-plane research, which began before Pearl Harbor and has been based on the design by British Inventor Frank Whittle, have been General Electric (the motor) and Bell Aircraft (the frame). But today almost every major U.S. planemaker is up to his ears in jet plans...