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Pending in Congress last week was a bill to award Rifle Inventor John C. Garand $100,000. Reason: as a civilian employe of the Army's Springfield (Mass.) Armory, Inventor Garand would otherwise get nothing but his $5,400-per-year salary for developing the Army's Garand rifle...
...solar-energy heater patented last week by Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a tire less inventor of solar-energy machines. His newest eliminates many of the circulation pipes which made older models clumsy, costly, tricky. A concave cylindrical mirror, clockworked to follow the sun, focuses the solar rays on a vacuum-insulated tube filled with a heat-absorbing liquid such as black petroleum. As the petroleum heats, it rises to a reservoir, from which cool petroleum then descends into the heating element by gravity. As the reservoir gets hotter, it can be used for cooking...
Nine years ago, as a young businessman in Detroit, Henry Schuman opened a little bookshop with his collection of first editions. One day an elderly doctor wandered in, asked for a volume by Réné Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope (1819). Bookseller Schuman found the search for this book as exciting as "digging in the Klondike," turned up several unexpected medical treasures along the way. After this, he devoted himself to rare medical books...
...length of the cars, but seats were eventually set cross wise to permit the riders to pair off and to see, dizzily, where they were going. Eulogium over the entrance to one of Coney's ultramodern roller coasters: "This ride is a Memorial to Lamarcus A. Thompson, Inventor of Gravity...
...swank Bar Harbor he married Laura Jay Wurts, daughter of Alexander Jay Wurts, Carnegie Tech professor and Westinghouse inventor, and great-great-great granddaughter of John Jay (1745-1829), the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Wiped out in the Bull Market Crash and "fed up to the chin with the Depression and the miasma that was enveloping Washington," Galloper Chandler in 1931 took his wife and two small daughters and galloped off to Europe. A student of Naziism since 1927, he was received ten years later at Nuremberg by the most successful man in the world...