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...Dahlberg's creation. In 1911, having been everything from a high-speed typist to freight-rate counselor, he found himself vice president of Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. One of its by-products was a rigid insulating board called Insulite. Dahlberg, several M. & 0. associates and Insulite's inventor, one Carl Muench, next devised a similar board made out of bagasse, the fibrous residue of chewed-up sugarcane, named it Celotex and began making it commercially in 1921. By 1929 annual sales of their brown insulating board had reached $1,479,000 and President Dahlberg was rich...
...size are three younger competitors-Firestone Tire & Rubber, U. S. Rubber, Goodyear Tire & Rubber. Goodyear, now the industry's biggest (with 1938 profit of $6,012,423 on net sales of $165,000,000), was founded in Akron in 1898 by the Seiberling family, has no connection with Inventor Goodyear save its name, chosen to do him honor...
Died. Colonel Frank Emerson De Long, 75, inventor of a hook-&-eye fastener ("See That Hump?"); of a heart attack; in Palm Beach...
...Inventor Farnsworth had still to prove that his ideas worked. For twelve years he labored in San Francisco and Philadelphia laboratories-watched over by his pretty wife, Pern, who saw to it that he did not forget to eat while building his complex equipment. By 1930 the world of science admitted his theories on television were practical...
...Inventor Farnsworth, who, besides his televisionary accomplishments, is Philadelphia's leading Mormon, will move his laboratory out to Capehart's streamlined plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. The old General Household plant at nearby Marion will be used for manufacturing. With a complete line of radios, phonographs and radio-phonographs, besides Capehart's record-changer patents, Farnsworth Corp. will have something to keep it busy while'television is turning the corner...