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...first person to reduce the information on one page of a book to one twenty-five-thousandth of the linear scale of the original "in such manner that it can be read by an electron microscope"; the other would go to the inventor of an electrically powered rotating motor no bigger than a cube one sixty-fourth of an inch high...
...quite a year later, staring down the barrel of a microscope, Feynman saw magnified 40 times a turntable motor that easily met his specifications. Devised by William H. McLellan, a 35-year-old engineer for a Pasadena research firm, the motor was fifteen thousandths of an inch square (smaller than a pencil dot), weighed 250 micrograms, and was powered by one thousandth of a watt. Working for two months in his spare time, Caltech Graduate McLellan used sharpened toothpicks, a watchmaker's lathe and a micro-drill press to fashion his flyspeck engine, which operates on the same "synchronous...
...ingenious, 10-Ib. heart-lung machine, invented by Dr. Sam I. Lerman. a Detroit general practitioner. Powered by a windshield wiper motor, Dr. Lerman's homemade machine-like complicated, bulky hospital models that weigh 75 Ibs. or more, cost from $4,000 to $40,000-is designed to take over the functions of the heart and lungs during heart surgery, oxygenate the blood and maintain constant circulation. It has been tested successfully on dogs. The machine runs on oxygen pressure, uses no electricity, and could be manufactured to sell...
...Donald Randall Richberg, 79, onetime New Deal lawyer who helped draft the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act, then shifted from business-baiting ("the despotic power of those 'royal families' which control large industries") to business-boosting (as counsel to Ford Motor Co., Transamerica Corp.) and wound up a vehement opponent of labor-union "monopolies," social security, public housing, integration, minimum wage laws; of a heart attack; in Charlottesville...
...sense to alert the Cambridge Rescue Unit, located in the fire station. They appeared within minutes and competently took over. It was only as the rescue truck was leaving the Yard with the stricken man that a University Policeman finally appeared. He only seemed interested in stopping this motor vehicle from driving through the Yard...