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...PhotoReflex films go to New Haven because there is where the inventor works, amiable young Luther George Simjian, Armenian-born director of Yale Medical School's photographic laboratories. An other of his devices is a fogged silver screen for the perfect projection of microscopic slides. Newly formed to exploit his latest invention is PhotoRerlex Co. of America, affiliated with Sperry Gyroscope Co. and North American Aviation Corp. Soon he hopes to enjoy royalties from a national chain of PhotoReflex booths...
...Wistful inventors searched for money interest in the inquisitive eyes of exposition. If there were any over-the-counter sales of devices, they escaped attention. Nonetheless hope persisted of another Jonathan Ogden Armour passing by. The late Mr. Armour, as every inventor knows, liked to take fliers. One such was a process for "cracking" oil, worked out by Jesse and Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. When the Armour fortune faded, profits from that old gamble on Mr. Armour's part re-enriched his widow, enabled her again to live beautifully (FORTUNE, April...
...Inventor is Robert Elkan Naumburg, 39, Cambridge, Mass, mechanical engineer, who made his present modest fortune inventing textile machinery and automobile accessories...
...Nobel Prize winner is blind-Dr. N. Gustaf Dalen of Sweden, inventor of automatic, flashing lighthouse lamps...
Near Berlin last week newsmen stood behind protecting steel walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar. Two minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...