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...takers on the Baltimore & Ohio, went whooping loudly past the grandstand. Then came stage coaches, one of which had been lent by Comedian Fred Stone. Then, on the loop of tracks, came a reproduction of Tom Thumb, the first of all steam engines, driven by an imitation of its inventor (Peter Cooper), dressed in breeches too bright for a hard-working engineer. After this a proud little ponyish Yorkshire engine that panted first in 1831 puffed slowly down the tracks. The General was there, an engine of the old Western & Atlantic R. R., bearing the scars of Civil War battles...
...which break up an optical image into minute constituent parts. They were even more impressed by the Baird photo-electric cell, of the colloidal selenium type, which could capture and transmit the minute image parts at unprecedented speed. Last week, between sessions of the British Association, members sought out Inventor Baird in Leeds to see him manipulate his latest tele-visors, which are now so refined that they can "see things at night." Using infra-red rays, on the long-wave edge of the spectrum of visible light, and an infra-red-sensitive cell of which Inventor Baird alone knows...
...Still in his 30's, son of a Scotch Presbyterian minister, Inventor Baird has won the esteem of Science after overcoming the inventor's traditional obstacles, poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...
...Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine," and drove with noisy lurchings into neighbor's hilly oat field. Dogs barked, slaves giggled, small boys guyed as the clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. The owner of the oats called a halt. It took the young inventor months to convert anyone but his family to the reaper...
...Reader Watterson send photographs not of the plow alone but of Inventor Roe & plow, of Inventor Roe plowing...