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Silence came upon the auditorium crowd. Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives, physicist for the Bell Telephone Laboratories and one of the inventors of television, nervously approached Professor Michelson and in a timid-seeming voice presented him with the Optical Society's Frederick Ives Medal. Dr. Ives gave the Society money for the biennial presentation of the medal in memory of his father, the late Frederick Eugene Ives, inventor of photoengraving...
...cathode than does Dr. Coolidge's nickel window. And the new contraption is relatively cheap, available for research laboratories everywhere to experiment with the mightiest rays that man has yet learned to control. Remarkable is the fact that Dr. C. M. Slack, Westinghouse Electric's inventor of the glass window, is only...
Long and expensive ($300,000) was the contest in the courts. Alone, Inventor Carson could not have financed it. But to his aid came many a friendly Westerner. Rudolph Spreckels, San Francisco sugar and gas tycoon, organized the Carson Investment Co. to fight the Desert Rat's battle. And in February, 1925, Tycoon Spreckels went down to the waterfront boardinghouse to tell the Desert Rat he was worth $5,000,000, perhaps $20,000,000. He became a national celebrity over night. Hundreds of newspapers carried his story; hundreds of women found matrimony desirable...
...James Brown Herreshoff, yacht builder, inventor...
Died. Samuel Newman, 76, manufacturer & inventor (cigar tip cutter, bed rail lock, pneumatic mattress); in Cincinnati...