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Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.) Eugene Gifford Grace, president Bethlehem Steel Corp. D. Eng William David Coolidge, scientist D. Sc. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor...
Married. Senator Guglielmo Marconi, 53, famed wireless inventor; to Countess Maria Christina Bezzi-Scala, in Rome. Senator Marconi's marriage to Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, daughter of late Baron Inchiquin, was annulled this year by the Rota Tribunal...
...anti-third term petition directed against Theodore Roosevelt (TIME, May 23). In view of President Coolidge's possible 1928 presidential candidacy, his signing of a No-Third-Term petition (if he did sign one) would indeed have been a "bloody invention" returned to plague the inventor. Seeking official confirmation or denial, most of the Washington correspondents referred to the rumor in their conference questions. When the petition subject was wholly ignored, newspapers reported that the White House had failed to deny the signing. In anti-Administration circles, this failure was exploited as confirmation of the story. Thus embarrassment...
...machine shown in Manhattan was devised by J. W. Legg, inventor for Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., and Dr. Max A. Goldstein, director of Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis. In principle it is like the oscillograph used in every high-school physics class for experiments on sound. Noises thrown against a diaphragm causes a light to throw a shadow against a screen. The same sound always causes the same shadow. The Legg-Goldstein machine is a highly efficient oscillograph...
Died. Hudson Maxim, 74, famed inventor; from anemia and gastric ulcers; at Lake Hopatcong...