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Eddie, known to every Harvard man for his "Yay-ul nnnuthing," was the inventor of the signaling system that keeps him fanning the air like a windmill when the plays get complicated...
Married, Stephen Henry Horgan, 80, inventor of the halftone process of reproducing photographs; and Miss Delia Van Houten, 74; in Nyack, N. Y. Mr. Horgan made his first newspaper halftone, a picture of Manhattan, for the defunct Daily Graphic in 1880. In 1924 he was the first man to telegraph a color photograph, a three-color portrait of Rudolph Valentino...
...Stevens-Duryea), 72, celebrated his golden wedding anniversary by showing lantern slides of his first "gas buggies" (1892), appealing to automobile manufacturers to simplify their motors, revolutionize their designs, eliminate the back seat bounce. Said Inventor Duryea: "With the engine in the rear the seats would come between the front and rear axle and not over the rear axle as in most modern automobiles...
...Died? Albert Blake Dick, 78, inventor of the mimeograph, chairman of the board of A. B. Dick Co.; of heart disease; in Lake Forest, Ill. He originated stencil printing, founded A. B. Dick Co., manufacturers of mimeographs and office equipment, 50 years...
...size of the gift-$158.000-surprised many people but pleased none more than it did a gentle, plump-faced old lady who helped in the campaign. Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison remembers the earliest days of the Institution. Her father. Lewis Miller, an Akron inventor, founded it with the help of Bishop John Heyl Vincent and there in 1885 Tom Edison paid court to Mina Miller. Later Inventor Edison be came honorary president of the Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle which for years scattered books for home reading over the marble-topped parlor tables of the land...