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When he was six, towheaded Philo Taylor Farnsworth became so delighted with a toy dynamo that he solemnly declared he hoped he had been born an inventor. By 1921, when he was 15, Philo had conceived a basic principle of television-electronic scansion of an image...
Soon learning there was no spot cash up that alley, the young inventor turned to more practical pursuits. To earn money for his first pair of long pants, he invented a thief-proof auto lock which netted him $25. At 19 he was working in a railroad yard. Then he landed a job in the fund-raising office of George Everson, a San Franciscan with brains and friends...
...famed researchers such as Dermatologist Wilhelm Frei, Dr. Carl Lange, inventor of the Lange test for syphilis, and Biochemist Rudolf Schoenheimer have found little difficulty in securing hospital and university appointments. Other valuable medical scientists, some of whom have not yet achieved medical prominence, are helped by the 77 well-known members of Manhattan's Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Medical Scientists, including Drs. Bernard Sachs, Ernst Philip Boas, John Augustus Hartwell, William Hallock Park, and headed by famed Clinician Emanuel Libman. The Committee, which is nondenominational, administers funds received from the National Coordinating Committee Fund...
...revealed in Phyllis Bottome's Danger Signal. As in her Private Worlds (1934), Phyllis Bottome's latest prospective best-seller works everything out by Individual Psychology-the theory of the late Dr. Alfred Adler, inventor of the "Inferiority Complex," Freud's onetime colleague and greatest rival...
...Inventor Houdry has an entirely new approach. In his arduous attempts to make gasoline from lignite, he happened on a catalyst (an agent that accelerates chemical action without becoming part of the product it activates) which converted crude to gasoline without the great pressure or heat required in thermal cracking. Unable to get backing in France, he found...