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...inventor as well as a famed surgeon, Dr. Young has spent many hours in the Institute's tool shop. He designed a modern cystoscope, a tubular instrument with a prism and electric light, used for examining the interior of the bladder. Other inventions: a combination cystoscope and radium applicator for treating tumors of the bladder; a special type of lithotrite, an instrument for crushing stones in the bladder...
President Roosevelt last fortnight signed a bill awarding $592,719 to Inventor Lester Pence Barlow. A nice piece of money. But Mr. Barlow, at home in Baltimore, was still far from happy. He had won his 21-year fight to make the Government pay for an aerial bomb which he invented in 1914, and which the Army used during World War I. But he calculated that taxes would eat up 80% of his reward, lawyers' fees and other expenses would take most of the rest. Said Mr. Barlow: "This case is a perfect explanation of why inventors go nuts...
...Clark explained that he took a "fatherly interest" in young Lester Barlow years ago. One result, said Mr. Clark, was a half interest in the Barlow bomb. He averred that he had a copy of a contract to this effect, explained that the original had been lost or destroyed. Inventor Barlow replied that Mr. Clark "never put one red cent into the work," nevertheless received $12,000 in 1924. Another of Mr. Barlow's woes was a divorce suit, which his wife filed last month. Congress and the President had not then awarded Mr. Barlow...
Meanwhile, Inventor Steckel was having his own troubles. Inventorlike, he clashed with his financial backers, by 1933 was just a director of C. M. P., owning 20% of outstanding stock. He went to law against his associates, lost a long, costly, acrimonious suit...
...last week Steckel's outlook brightened. The Court's special master ordered Big Steel to pay C. M. P. $3,850,000 royalties. Even after the lawyers are paid, the inventor's share should be enough to pay the mortgage on his home in Youngstown, Ohio, satisfy the creditors who have haunted him for five years...