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...Aeronautics, aviation has lost one of its most devoted exponents and the Navy a capable officer, often termed the father of Naval aviation. Captain Mustin was largely responsible for the establishment of the Bureau of Aeronautics and the shaping of the Navy's air policy in recent years. Inventor of the catapult idea of launching airplanes from shipboard, he was also the first pilot to be launched in this manner. As first Commander of the Aircraft Squadrons of the Fleet, he perfected means of spotting gunfire by airplane. Together with Admiral Bradley Fiske, he perfected the telescopic gunsight...
...International Congress of Physiology comes the story that Dr. Banting will be recommended to the Swedish Academy of Medicine, which acts as the jury for this prize on behalf of the Nobel Foundation, custodians of the fund established in 1896 by the will of Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite. The average value of the prize is about...
...Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860-1904), Danish physician, inventor of the Finsen lamp for treating diseases with decolorized light rays...
...Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), Russian, sub-director of Pasteur Institute, Paris, inventor of " phagocytosis "theory of white blood corpuscles, discoverer of therapeutic value of lactic ferments (Bacillus bulgaricus...
Died. John W. O'Bannon, 54, inventor of a substitute for leather, founder and former President of the O'Bannon Corporation, which for several years supplied the upholstery for all Ford cars, in West Hill, sanitarium near Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y., insane...