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...inventive genius of his Grandfather Cooper. The late, great Michael Pupin marveled not only at the imaginative brilliance of his mind but also at his extraordinary physical grace, especially marked in the deftness of his hands. Rich and unorthodox in his methods, he invented the widely-used mercury vapor lamp, discovered the basic principle of the vacuum-tube amplifier, made many an other prime contribution to electricity and radio. He also pioneered in the development of hydro-airplanes, speedboats, aerial torpedoes, heliocopters. He died in 1921. Peter Cooper Hewitt's only child was a daughter, Ann Cooper Hewitt, born...
Most of his campaign speeches have been made from the branches of trees or clinging to lamp posts. Thirteen times the voters of Le Puy have elected him either their Municipal Councilor or Mayor. The fourteenth time (1932) they sent him as their Deputy to Paris where he continued his habit of making long speeches at the drop...
...While sightseeing Actor Hersholt slipped, fell, severely bruised his leg. He was put to bed, treated with an electric lamp, by Dr. Dafoe. Said he: "So far as I know, no actor has ever before had the experience of learning his role from the living character...
...actual process of coming to birth. The tour of its laboratories turned out to be a march past a row of closed doors. Some of the tourists privately complained that they were seeing nothing new, that the Alnico magnet was originally a Japanese find, that the little lamp was a Dutch invention, that GE was puttering with both under license. Good cheer returned, however, when the visitors came upon a garbage-grinder which may revolutionize "kitchen waste" disposal by chopping it fine, flushing it down the sink drain (TIME, Sept. 9). With crows of delight the tycoons stopped, played with...
...drawn by artful letters written by Jules's sister. She was revolted by his crudeness, suffered in the miserable leaky shack. When Jules became involved in a feud and was accused of setting fire to a neighbor s grain, Henrietta sat up all night, once had a kerosene lamp shot out of her hand, eventually went crazy. Jules picked himself another bride, who ran away after two weeks. His fourth stayed, bore him six children...