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Working alone in his Newark, N. J., laboratory Frederick T. O'Grady, inventor in his late 30's, produced a system of color cinemagraphy that has some advantages over the system recently worked out by the vast Eastman laboratories...
...Inventor O'Grady has been working on his system for eight and a half years. Twenty one years ago he worked for the Kinemacolor company. Its pictures showed only two colors. This came from taking two films simultaneously, one through one color screen, the other through another color screen. Then the two films were glued together. Technicolor and Prismacolor pictures shown at present-day theatres come through similar processes...
...When Inventor O'Grady exhibited his apparatus last week at L. Bamberger & Co.'s Newark department store the colors seemed natural. But the pictures, shown large, flickered. Positives can be printed in any numbers from the original film, an advantage commercially. Entrepreneurs at once offered Mr. O'Grady a million dollars for his invention. He refused it. He has his own company going-on a small scale, last week...
...March 10, 1876, Inventor Alexander Graham Bell summoned his assistant over the telephone, said: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." Mr. Watson came...
Died. Frank McDowell Leavitt, 72, inventor, 25 years ago, of the machine that makes tin cans, inventor of the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo used by the U. S. Navy since 1918; of heart disease; at Scarsdale...