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Rare is the celebration or exposition which, when held, is not claimed as "my idea originally" by a camp following of crack-pate "inventors." Rarer is the inventor who actually did have the idea and, rarer still, got paid...
President Roosevelt last week (just before elections) shied off all suggestions of tax-exemption in his aloof discussion of the Lambert Plan, but Inventor Lambert had an argument appealing to more than one New Dealer: tax exemption would cost the Government nothing, since much of the capital contemplated for the vast Housing market of Phase No. 5 is now lying idle and untaxed anyway, and the stimulation to industry would increase the revenues of the Treasury...
Founded in 1859 by Inventor Peter Cooper, who built the first U. S. locomotive ("Tom Thumb"), Cooper Union still bears many marks of its picturesque founder. He created it as an institution to teach engineering and art free to the children of the poor. Almost forgotten are some of Peter Cooper's pious stipulations: e.g. "I trust that the students of this institution will do something to bear back the mighty torrent of evils now pressing on the world...
Today Cooper Union is less renowned than in Cooper's day, when it produced such illustrious bearer-backers of the world's evils as Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Inventor Michael Pupin, Unionist Samuel Gompers. But 1,800 students in its free art and engineering schools (with day and evening branches), picked from seven times as many applicants, still grub earnestly at their education...
...Howard Kelly went to the Hopkins in 1889, remained there until 1919 when he resigned as professor emeritus of gynecology to devote his time to Baltimore's Howard A. Kelly Hospital, which he had founded in 1892. During his 30 years at Hopkins he achieved fame as the inventor of various modern kidney, uterine and ovarian operations, as a pioneer in the use of cocaine anesthesia, as the inventor of the Kelly cystoscope and proctoscope, instruments for examining the bladder and rectum...