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Died. Harry Grindell-Matthews, 61, inventor of a highly publicized "death ray," fifth husband of Singer Ganna Walska; in his lonely, electrically guarded bungalow laboratory near Swansea, Wales. An electrical researcher, he developed submarine detectors, "aerial mines," remote-control devices, sound-film synchronization, in 1911 established wireless communication with a plane in flight...
...Business. Talon Inc. began with the harebrained idea of Inventor Whitcomb L. Judson, who had trouble lacing his shoes and decided that there must be an easier way. It grew up under Colonel Lewis Walker, who wore Judson's invention on his high-topped shoes and gave up law at the age of 60 to devote his full time and fortune to making Judson's "clasp locker and unlocker" a success...
...Bureau took part in the research and design, but the idea man behind the windmill is Palmer Cosslet Putnam, onetime geologist in the Belgian Congo, flyer for Britain in World War I, president (1931) of G. P. Putnam's Sons, Manhattan publishers. "So far as we know," ventures Inventor Putnam, "this is the first attempt to generate alternating current by means of the wind for interconnection with a distribution system."* Engineers are sure that wind-generated electricity will be no costlier than water-generated, may possibly prove cheaper...
Died. Stephen Henry Horgan, 87, inventor of halftone engraving; in Orange, N.J. In 1880 as a photographer on the New York Daily Graphic, world's first illustrated newspaper, he worked out the process which made possible the general reproduction of photographs in the press...
...Rudolf Schindler, inventor of the flexible gastroscope (a sort of periscope which enables doctors to see the inside of the stomach), trained a Provident doctor in his work. Thus Provident is one of the few U.S. hospitals to have one of these important gastroscopic clinics...