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Died. Leon Forrest Douglass, 71, millionaire inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company; after a long illness; in San Francisco. Once said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...
This blast upset Fort Worth's Junior Chamber of Commerce. To celebrate the inauguration of a new streamlined train (Texas Zephyr) this week between Dallas, Fort Worth and Denver, the Junior Chambermen had planned an elaborate ceremony with General Motors' famed vice president, Inventor Charles Kettering, as principal speaker. Mr. Budd and his unrelated namesake, Edward G. Budd, streamlined-train maker, were to be on hand too. Last week the ceremony was abruptly called...
Once in a thousand times such crackpottery held water. One day when a sentry in the Navy Department slipped away for lunch, an inventor slipped into Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt's office, sold him an electrical antennae device that implemented the successful North Sea mine barrage...
Last week at a long mahogany table in Washington's Commerce Department Building a group of scientists and engineers sat down for their first meeting. Appointed by Commerce Secretary Harry Hopkins, the National Inventors' Council has only one reason for existence: to listen to all inventors, cracked or solid, tap them for soundness. Head of the council was one of the U. S.'s most famed industrial scientists, who has been known to have some queer ideas himself-horse-faced, talkative Charles Kettering, General Manager of Research Laboratories of General Motors Corp., inventor of the self-starter...
Said Conway Coe when the council had finished organization, decided to meet again later: "We expect to get about 100,000 inventions a year. If ten of them prove to be useful . . . the idea will have been very much worthwhile. There's no such thing as a crackpot inventor. Edison might have been the crackpot of the century. . . . But his stuff clicked...