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...Frederick F. Fuller, an inventor whose brain deals weirdly and intelligently with interlocking cog wheels, made a contract with the National Cash Register Co. For his $5,000 yearly salary he was to give to the company all inventions he developed during that year and during the year thereafter. At the end of the contract year he wanted his agreement renewed. An N. C. R. employing official refused but let him continue on the payroll under an assignment of invention rights annexed to, but not executed with, the 1909 agreement. A cash consideration was not made explicit. This arrangement endured...
Wanted. Last week, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced a prize of $1,000 for the inventor of a durable, comfortable, dependable, non-slipping winter and wet-weather shoe for horses. The Society had examined, discarded 600 models...
Died. Jacob Haish, 99, "inventor of barbed wire," possibly the oldest bank president in the U. S. (Haish State, De Kalb, Ill.), millionaire; at De Kalb, of pneumonia...
...transmit a picture or a whole page of print across the Atlantic by radio," was amplified. Marconi's prophecy, it appeared, was based on the development, in various European laboratories, of a new photo-electric cell, much more sensitive than the selenium cells hitherto used with indifferent results. The inventor of the cell was one Dr. Carolus, who had based his work on the so-called Kerr method of influencing polarized light so that high voltage produces a strong light ray, low voltage a weak ray. The Carolus cell, which was not described in despatches, transformed light to electricity...
Edison. In Manhattan, the Edison Pioneers celebrated with a dinner the 79th birth anniversary of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Mr. Edison basked in the sun at Fort Myers, Fla., but sent them a telegram: "Many thanks. Feeling fine. Weather beautiful. Coconuts are dropping all over the place. Wish you were here." To newspapermen of whom he entertained two large parties during the day, he said: "I couldn't retire. Just like trying to stop smoking cigarets. . . . Inventions are away ahead of the people...