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Sleep is just a bad habit. So said Socrates and Samuel Johnson, and so for years has thought grey-haired Richard Buckminster Fuller, futurific inventor of the Dymaxion* house (TIME, Aug. 22, 1932), the Dymaxion car and the Dymaxion globe. Fuller made a deliberate attempt to break the sleep habit, with excellent results. Last week he announced his Dymaxion system of sleeping. Two hours of sleep a day, he said firmly, is plenty...
Paul Hoffman has always bet on winners -big winners. First, it was the automobile. As a boy, he learned about cars from a decrepit secondhand Pope-Toledo that he heckled his inventor-father into buying. When Paul quit the University of Chicago at 18, he began selling autos in Chicago by the simple but unusual method of driving one up Michigan Avenue and not returning until he had sold...
...glare has been removed from glass. The first practical process for treating big and small surfaces to eliminate light reflection was announced this week by its inventor, H. R. Moulton of the American Optical...
...from the wounded at Pearl Harbor (TIME, Jan. 19, 1942). Although simpler and quicker than X ray, the locator (which is attached to a sensitive ammeter) had hitherto been considered too crude for such fine work. The assistant who helped the Mt. Sinai surgeon use the instrument was its inventor Manhattan Subway Engineer Samuel Berman...
...weapon, the Super Band-pass Distortion Eliminator, Deluxe Model. Dr. LeCorbeiller explained his invention in his usual clear manner, so that everyone could understand. The audience was mystified. It was a graphic demonstration of Dr. LeCorbeiller's favorite subject, Signal Distortion, in which, from a mere bull fiddle, the inventor produced the sound of a complete brass band...