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...High Standard Manufacturing Co. And the spark plug of High Standard was blue-eyed, gun-wise Carl Gustave ("Gus") Swebilius, who was born in Sweden 61 years ago, moved to the U.S. when he was 16, has been inventing and making guns ever since. Gus Swebilius worked with famed Inventor John Moses Browning during World War I, made Colt and Browning machine guns. After the Germans came out in War I with Anthony Fokker's device to fire airplane machine guns through the propeller, Gus Swebilius was the first in the U.S. to work out a similar device...
...notebook. Those were the days, he thought. The Renaissance, the rebirth of an old culture and the birth of a new one; that was the time when he should have lived. He would certainly have been another Da Vinci, an artist at everything. He could see himself now; architect, inventor, poet--Vag leaned back perilously in his chair--the full man. What chance did he have today--the chair jerked forward again--in a regimented world where you had to stick in one rut till you died in it? Could anyone live the full life today? Vag sported, then blew...
Died. Edwin S. Porter, 71, pioneer motion-picture inventor and producer; after long illness; in Manhattan. A collaborator with Thomas Alva Edison in the development of the motion-picture camera, Inventor Porter lived to participate in important research on sound and color films. In 1899 he made for Edison the first story film when he produced a 500-ft. subject called The Life of an American Fireman. Four years later, in the wilds of Essex County, N.J., he made The Great Train Robbery, first Western thriller...
...Mechanic Roy Shelton and his small son whisked down the highway in a vintage buckboard behind the most remarkable horse since Pegasus (see cut). It averaged 15 miles an hour, and a gallon of gas was feed enough for a day. Though he never had to shoe his horse, Inventor Shelton confessed it was occasionally necessary to change a tire...
...best ideas for improving aircraft radios and instruments have hit him in the Stork (which he calls "my night office"). He pays alimony to four ex-wives, is one of the outstanding answers to the prayers of chorines in Manhattan, Hollywood and points between. He is also a prolific inventor, an untutored natural master of electrical mechanics who has been known to devise a complete electrical control system on a luncheon napkin. Like Henry J. Kaiser in a different field he belongs to that completely individual type of miracle man that flourishes chiefly in the U. S. For years...