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Though Edison invented phonographs, his face is not yet as familiar in far-off lands as is that of a small, white, listening dog. Thus is injustice done to inventors. Was injustice done, last week, when Chairman John E. Aldred of the Gillette Safety Razor Company announced that the value of its patents had been suddenly written down from $3,459,500 to $1? Did that imply that the ideas of Inventor King Camp Gillette are now worth one hundred cents...
...insidious excitement and the delicious thrill of bidding for beautiful things. Since then, he has dropped in at many auctions, adding to his private collection of French books, manuscripts, prints, and etchings. Had his father never taken him to Chickering Hall, Cortland Bishop would probably have been an inventor. He surprised his neighbors at Lenox, Mass., by buying a baby tank; in this staggering vehicle he would ride amiably up and down the solemn rocks and rills of New England, accompanied by two or more large, barking, shaggy dogs. Verbose, clever, dynamic, Cortland Bishop has vast enthusiasms...
Business. Although numerous foreign businessmen of standing were in the U. S., last week, one about to arrive was unique. He, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney, a British M.P., inventor of the paravane comes to prepare for a series of trans-Atlantic flights by the giant dirigible R-100, now nearly complete. The skyship, equipped to carry 100 passengers in cabins, is expected to make only a few trips to the U. S. and will then go into service between England and Egypt. But Commander Burney purposed, last week, to raise capital in the U. S. wherewith to build a fleet...
...albatross and aerodonetists studied its 17-ft. wingspread, its 4-ft., 25-lb. body. The albatross is the largest and strongest of seabirds, and scientists have tried to learn from it the method of its easy flight. At London last week Capt. Victor Dibovsky-43, aviator since 1908, inventor of gears to permit the firing of bullets through the revolving propellers of airplanes, winner of a British prize for inventiveness-declared that he had solved the problem. The secret lay in a depression of the albatross's back, a dip that allowed the bird to utilize the force...
Many a hapless pilot has crashed, died in flames ; many a plane burst afire in midair. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, famed inventor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., believes the fire menace mastered. His company has developed a Diesel airplane engine. Fuel oil for Diesel engines is non-inflammable...