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Juan J. Tomadelli, inventor and owner of "bottled sunshine" (TIME, Mar. 10), whom the Attorney General of New York State sought to enjoin from selling capital stock in his scientifically-suspected, self-feeding lamp, was upheld by ex-Supreme Court Justice New-burger, who, as referee, dismissed the proceedings. The opinion held that, although two illuminating experts had declared (without examination) that Tomadelli's lamp violated well-known scientific principles, the burden of proof was on the plaintiff (the Attorney General) to show that the representations of the promoter were consciously false and made with intent to deceive...
Died. Eli Whitney, 77, president of the New Haven Water Co., direct descendant of the cotton-gin inventor, of heart disease; at New Haven...
Fritz Kreisler, famed violinist: "In an interview given to a reporter on the Reliance, bound for Hamburg, I suggested that a movement be undertaken to induce the inventor of the so-called death ray (TIME, June 2 et seq.), to sell his device to 'an interested body of trustworthy men and women' who would destroy it so it could never be used again. I was reported to have shown deep emotion, to have said: 'I would be willing to undertake a monster benefit performance in New York, giving all the proceeds as a nucleus of a fund...
...fall into the hands of tiresome practical jokers. An overdose slipped into Aunt Emma's coffe, for instance, might make transportation almost impossible. In fact so delicate will be the business of applying Dr. Saike's remedy, that all operations might better be suspended until the ingenious inventor has had time to pound up another fish, equipped with reverse action...
...announcement of H. Grindell Mathews, English inventor, of his "diabolical rays" for destroying ships or airplanes at long distance aroused a chorus of skeptics on both sides of the water. Mr. Mathews has not yet seen fit to report his researches to the Royal Society or other scientific bodies, and he has yet to produce the effects he claims outside of a small laboratory. He has been offered the use of the well-equipped laboratories of the Rhone Engineering Works, Lyons, by M. Eugene Royer, their director, himself an inventor. He also has French financial backing, but he declares...