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...67th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society convened in Washington under the Presidency of Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of bakelite. R. S. McBride, President of the Washington section, welcomed the convention, and it was entertained by cinemas, teas, receptions, dances, sight-seeings, excursions to Government laboratories, to Mount Vernon, to Edgewood Arsenal. President Coolidge received the chemists...
...inventor is Dr. Horak, a Czech engineer. He does not claim to have found the secret of unbreakable glass. He does claim his glass is tougher than any yet known...
This, according to counsel for the defendants, meant little or nothing. "Mr. Tomadelli never claimed that he had perfected the lamp," he stated. "He had not. He was an inventor working on an invention. The public bought the stock in the hope that the invention would be made commercially success...
...Grindell-Matthews, inventor of a method of controlling motorboats at sea by wireless, for which the British Government awarded him $125,000, has perfected a principle by which airplane or other engines can be stopped in full operation through an invisible ray. He has demonstrated its efficacy with but a quarter kilowatt of power on engines in the laboratory, and needs only to strengthen its current for operation at a greater distance to bring airplanes in flight to a full stop and send them crashing to earth. No insulation is proof against this weapon, for if the carburetor were sufficiently...
Niela Assen, Norwegian inventor in the French service, has developed still another type of war machine, consisting of nests of explosive and gas bombs, operated by radio from a distance. These "mechanical soldiers" could hold a front of several hundred miles against enemy invaders with a small staff of engineers. Mr. Assen expects to present his scheme to the U. S. War Department...