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Still pink with pride over his giant Pan American Clipper (S-42), which lately flew the Pacific to Honolulu, Inventor Igor Ivan Sikorsky last week stood on the shore of Long Island Sound at Bridgeport, Conn, and beamed at his newest creation, a baby sister of the Clipper, known as S-43. Supposedly the world's fastest (200 m.p.h.) amphibian, the new Sikorsky weighs 19.000 Ib. loaded, seats...
...president of University of Illinois and finally chancellor of New York University, Harry Woodburn Chase has devoted his entire career to rescuing people from ignorance. Last week in Manhattan, Chancellor Chase uprose to dedicate a memorial tablet to his institution's most famed professor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph. Explaining that early 19th Century scientists held long distance telegraphy to be a physical impossibility, the Chancellor declared...
Lawrence B. Sperry (late inventor of the automatic gyro-pilot): "To show how it could fly the plane with his hands off the controls, he was demonstrating this to a girl friend he had with him, by a little conservative lovemaking. At that moment the stabilizer went wrong and the [flying] boat went into a vicious spin, and the two were found pretty much in each other's arms, very severely injured...
...popular bicycle idea was one in which, besides the usual chain, there was a second chain connecting the rear wheel with the front wheel. Thus when the bicycle was fairly going, the rear wheel drove the front wheel, which pulled the bicycle, which turned the rear wheel. One inventor of such a bike was pretty persistent. He would not go away until an examiner asked him how he would stop the bicycle...
...energy of one-quarter horsepower applied over a two-week period. When it was discovered that Mr. Giragossian had made use of a "time-lever," he was told to get out of the halls of Congress until he could prove that he was the "first and original discoverer or inventor." Last February his good friend, Representative Clarence John McLeod of Michigan, again persuaded Congress to consider the Garabed wheel...