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...chief photographed from behind, who turns out to be the man you least suspect. Before long the roguish tendencies of the executives of Transcontinental Airways have been stimulated to such a pitch by the refusal of Ralph Bellamy to sell out his tottering independent line that they hire an inventor with a plane-destroying ray to wreck Bellamy planes. Several pilots, screaming unpleasantly, have fallen in flames before Bellamy finds out about the ray machine and bombs it to pieces. Everything is cleared up at the end except the chastity of Miss Tala Birell. Not that anything is wrong...
Patent No. 2,000,000 is for an "improvement for pneumatic tires for railroad cars."* Inventor Ledwinka thinks very little of it. Said he: ''Rubber at high speeds builds up a tremendous heat, enough to blow out the tube, or in solid tires to melt them internally. We were forced recently to replace pneumatic tires with metal wheels on a train we shipped to Texas." Budd Co. will develop his railroad tire, said he, "to meet competition...
Subject to both uses and abuses, patents are granted on the theory that, in return for making a full and complete disclosure of his secret, an inventor is entitled to the exclusive right to make, use and sell it for 17 years. To be patentable, inventions must fall within one of six different classes of subject matter: 1) an art or process, 2) a machine, 3) an article of manufacture, 4) a composition of matter, 5) a plant asexually reproduced other than a tuber-propagated plant, 6) a new and ornamental design. It takes at least three months...
...from the Germans-but from the British Navy! . . . Mr. Whitlock was working earnestly, in co-operation with the German authorities and a Belgian committee, to rescue starving Belgium from the British blockade." In 1915 a book called Defenceless America, by the brother of Sir Hiram Maxim, machine-gun inventor, raised goosebumps on thousands of U. S. necks. It was made into a cinema called The Battle Cry of Peace...
...trial, begun last November and repeatedly postponed, was the culmination of a battle between Phillip Drinker, assistant professor of Industrial Hygiene at the School of Public Health, and Emerson, a Cambridge inventor, over the rights to the respirator...