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Died. Edward Bausch, 89, famed optical manufacturer (Bausch & Lomb) and inventor; after long illness; in Rochester, N.Y. His iris diaphragm shutter made the snapshot camera practical...
...know how careful Inventor Volf's observations of stumbling babes and drunks may have been (TIME, July 10), but it would be a physical impossibility for equilibrium to be disturbed on an east-west line due to motion of the earth. In physics rotation is considered as an acceleration, but this fact would cause an infant to fall southward in the northern hemisphere, northward in the southern hemisphere, not at all on the equator. TIME'S SCIENCE section is highly informative, but this item looks like a bum steer...
...does not shake their faith. They have learned something of what they are up against and have turned their studies to practical engineering details. Some of the problems are clearly posed in a new book (Rockets; Viking; $3.50) by Willy Ley, onetime colleague of German Professor Hermann Oberth, reported inventor of the robot bomb (TIME, July...
Belly wounds have priority on the operating tables. Nurses call the belly-wound ward "Wangenstein Alley," after the inventor of a stomach suction device. In the olive-brown twilight, Wangenstein Alleys look like Spanish moss forests, with double rubber tubes descending from bottles high above each bed to the patients' noses and wounds...
Christian Adolf Volf has studied the human ear for 25 years. A balding, Danish-born inventor and onetime Sonotone engineer, he calls himself an acoustical physicist...