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Eighty-four-year old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison last week visited Rubber-man Harvey Samuel Firestone's Miami Beach plantations, went to bed with a new invention, the "de-humidifier," in his room-a machine to abstract moisture from the air, lessen humidity fatigue. Mr. Edison arose beaming, described the apparatus as not yet ready for the market...
...Inventor Watson expects his machine to be used in railroad trains, airplanes, battleships. Because the Watsongraph can be adjusted so that eavesdroppers will obtain only nonsense syllables, he thinks that policemen will find it useful. It promises to be cheaper than the teletype machines now widely in use, which require costly leased wires. But it will be limited according to the availability of radio wavelengths...
...Government, the Michigan State Police, the Press. One man was the hotel owner, white-haired Fred Wardell, president of Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. He had furnished the money to exploit the new invention. The other man. who inspected his guests owlishly through horn-rimmed glasses, was the inventor, Glenn W. Watson, onetime salesman. Mr. Watson, new to inventing, had learned about electricity only three years ago while he played with his son's electrical toys...
...hotel room Mr. Wardell and Inventor Watson had set up the sending set, a typewriter connected by special apparatus with a radio transmitter. The receiving set, also a typewriter and radio, was located in the second room. A message was typed on the sending machine. Guests were amazed to hear the receiving apparatus within a fraction of a second start to click out the message which it had received from...
...Inventor Davis began experiments in aeronautics before the Wrights made their first flight, and exhibited a model in the New York automobile show of 1901. His son Albert last week declared he would have engineers inspect his father's designs with a view toward developing them...