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...artificial fat, has been fed to diabetic patients without the ill results attendant upon eating ordinary fats, allowing them to gain in weight and strength. It supplements and sometimes hastens the curative action of insulin. It is harmless even if taken continuously in quantity.-Dr. Max Kalin (the inventor), Dr. William J. Gies, Columbia University; Dr. Hattic L. Heft...
...Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, of Columbia University, was elected President of the Association for 1925. He was born at Idvor, in Banat, Hungary, in 1858. He came to the U. S. 50 years ago, worked his way through Columbia and joined the electrical engineering faculty there. He became an inventor and devised many useful and highly technical electrical inventions. He is now Professor of Electro-Mechanics...
...Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with their eyes. When an enthusiastic dolt began to clap, they hissed him down as if he had interrupted the first movement of a sonata. But at the concert's end they, too, clapped long for Inventor Wilfred...
...right hand was Wilton J. Lambert, Washington attorney, centurion of the bodyguard. Such was the abrupt appearance of William B. Shearer, plaintiff?described in papers which his lawyers proceeded to file as a citizen and a taxpayer as well as a qualified naval expert and the inventor of a type of one-man torpedo boat, the Sea Hornet, sold to the Government during the War. One other person was described in the papers filed. He was Curtis D. Wilbur, set down as Secretary of the Navy and defendant...
...Inventor Flettner, when he had completed his dumbfounding of the mariners, discussed his craft. Said he : "My invention is bound to revolutionize not only navigation, but also the generation of power in every line of industry." By means of the Flettner cylinders, he stated, anything from a flour mill to an electric power-plant could be driven, at a fraction of the present cost of coal or water power. He is now negotiating with the Good-year-Zeppelin Co. with a view to equipping airships with the device...