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According to Coach Ben Martin, who has just started his first season as crimson inventor, spirit and balance are the two elments that may carry this spring's undermanned and relatively undersized squad through to a successful season...
Died. Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III, 68, head of the Vanderbilt clan, great-grandson of Founder "Commodore" Cornelius; of a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard the yacht Ambassadress; in the City Basin at Miami. Reserved, plodding, famed for his Vandyke beard and his yachts,* he was an inventor (30 devices for improving freight cars and locomotives), a soldier (Mexican border and World War I), financier (banks, railroads, traction companies). A graduate of Yale, where he was a slow but steady student, he started tinkering early in the shops of the Vanderbilt-controlled New York Central, made a point of visiting them periodically...
...scheme to increase steel scrap collections, even on the farms, was formally approved by WPB last week. The scheme was proposed by International Harvester's young, imaginative president Fowler McCormick, grandson-successor of the late, great inventor Cyrus McCormick...
Idea of making two sheep grow where only one grew before first occurred to Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), who spent the last 30 years of his life and some $250,000 on the project. In 1886, summering with his family in Nova Scotia, Bell bought an ewe for his children to play with. When they returned next season, there were two sheep-a modest increase indeed, Bell thought, considering that young pigs were usually produced by the dozen, kittens and puppies by the half dozen. If sheep were only one-sixth as prolific as pigs, the poverty...
...engineers were slow in adopting induction heating since its invention in 1916. The inventor was the late Dr. Edwin Fitch Northrup, who was exploring for any method of electrical heating which scientists might have overlooked. Early induction furnaces used low power with frequencies of 20,000 to 80,000 cycles. This limited them to laboratory and small-scale work until development in the '20s of generators capable of producing strong currents of 1,000 to 12,000 cycles-good enough for most industrial purposes...