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...yard wide, weighing eight pounds, containing a steel comb which is picked by minute pincers when notes are struck on the keyboard above-such is the Pichetone-instrument which Inventor S. Giley of Moscow declares will supplant the piano. Russian musicians assert that it has a tone superior to that of the ordinary pianoforte...
Married. Lyman D. Wilbur, son of U. S. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, to Miss Henrietta Shattuck, school teacher, daughter of the late Herbert A. Shattuck, publicity director for Inventor Thomas A. Edison; at Leland Stanford Jr. University, Calif...
Came Henry, an inventor, who got the tin-can sound out of his grandfather's perfected dulcimer; Theodore, a mechanic, who standardized construction. Business moved uptown, from a barn to an office building. William, an organizer, headed the house of Steinway. He built Steinway Hall, which, last week, became a subject for the writers of human interest articles...
...provocative paper on Birth Control-a subject now agitating several churches-the annual Swedenborgian convention was uneventful. But this proved sufficient cause to recapture from historical lore the name by which this smallest of sects is known: Emmanuel Swedenborg, of Sweden, who was poet, mystic, mathematician, physician, statesman, inventor-almost everything but a Malthusian...
...Smithsonian Institution at Washington stands a very old airplane with a stern but bedraggled air, like that of a dead buzzard stuffed by an inexpert taxidermist. It was built by Inventor S. P. Langley in 1903, is said to have once wobbled in the ether over the Potomac River. On it is a label: "The first man-carrying airplane in the world capable of sustained flight...