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Abandoning his 33rd floor aerie (in Manhattan's New Yorker Hotel) as well as his customary winter costume of long underwear, red golf socks and high-laced shoes, genial, ghostly, 84-year-old Hermit-Inventor Nikola Tesla (Tesla induction motor, Tesla pump, Tesla transformer, some 700 other patents) indulged an old enthusiasm for prize fighters, went down to dine with a fellow Croat, Welterweight Champion Fritzie Zivic...
...When he was 20, studying at the Technische Hochschule of Munich, one of the lecturers, famed Professor Carl von Linde, mechanical-refrigeration pioneer, singled out young Diesel, sent him, after graduation, to work at the Linde factory in Paris. In a few months Diesel was acting as engineer, manager, inventor, patent expert, purchasing agent. He began to take out patents of his own-one for a means of making "clear ice," another for a gadget to make ice on the dinner table, in a carafe...
...inventor patented his engine blueprint in 1892 but the first experimental model was not completed until the next year. It was started by outside power, then fuel was injected. The engine blew up. Diesel was pleased. It had shown him that the heat of compression really was enough to ignite the fuel. Four more years of hard, steady work produced an engine with the highest thermal efficiency of any then in existence...
...paid him a lump sum of 1,250,000 marks plus a block of stock. Diesel moved his family into a lavish apartment, then into a lavish house in Munich, began pouring his money into oil and real-estate speculations. Most of these turned out badly. Lawsuits popped. The inventor's health began to crack, but he labored on, propping his strength with bromides and antipyrin. On a visit to the U. S., he met Thomas Edison, was deeply impressed by the U. S. inventor's simple, abstemious habits. When Diesel took his leave, Edison joked...
Smart little Harry Ferguson, builder and distributor of the Ford lightweight tractor (TIME, July 3, 1939), likes to think of his machines in terms of social progress. Last summer he visited England and his native Ireland. This week Inventor Ferguson put forth a new idea to help win the war for Britain...