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...DIED. Robert Abplanalp, 81, inventor of the plastic valve used to distribute aerosol sprays; in Bronxville, New York. After making a fortune on his patented valve?some 4 billion are manufactured each year?Abplanalp became better known as one of former President Richard Nixon's closest friends and confidants?including during Nixon's 1974 resignation?a role Abplanalp described with modesty. "My job," he once said, "was to tell a couple of small jokes...
DIED. WALTER ZAPP, 97, inventor of the Minox mini-camera, a device tiny enough to be hidden in a closed hand; in Binningen, Switzerland. Though the camera he created in 1936 became a popular gadget in James Bond movies and other spy films, Zapp's invention was inspired not by anything so intriguing as espionage but by having once worked as an art photographer's apprentice, which required him to lug around heavy wooden cameras...
...during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical, though not most profound, political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He devised bifocal glasses and clean-burning stoves, charts of the Gulf Stream and theories about the contagious nature of the common cold. He was a pioneer of do-it-yourself civic improvement, launching such schemes as a lending library, volunteer fire corps, insurance association and matching-grant fund raiser. He helped...
...Mancusi-Ungaro’s office on the top floor of the Fogg Art Museum for a closet. When she was hired to start Harvard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art in December 2000, she inherited the University’s legacy as the inventor of art conservation a century ago, and was charged with making Harvard a world leader in modern art studies. Yet her claustrophobic office—a room the size of a Dilbert cubicle, enclosed by blank white walls—is just about the only space her center...
...It’s not unreasonable for the University and inventor to recover gains from licensing a patent, much of which goes back into funding for more research,” he says...