Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of shatterproof glass was born in 1903 when a French chemist, Edouard Benedictus, knocked a bottle containing dried collodion from a shelf. The bottle cracked but the fragments did not spatter. Benedictus concluded that they were held together by the collodion film. He got a patent in 1914 but the first shatterproof glass did not appear in automobiles until...
...exciting. Cinemaddicts will learn that Bell's first words over his new device, spoken just after he had spilled a bottle of acid, were: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." The picture then recounts Bell's partnership with Mabel Hubbard's father (Charles Coburn), his patent fight with Western Union and his meeting with Queen Victoria...
Indeed, it is obvious that, undergraduate polls and undergraduate jitterbugs notwithstanding, no House should ever engage a "name" orchestra. To pay for such orchestras it is necessary in the first place to raise the price of admission beyond the reach of many members of the House. This is a patent injustice and ample reason in itself for abolishing such dances. Secondly and consequently, it is necessary to initiate an expensive advertising campaign and lure in outsiders, usually Freshmen or members of other Houses, but too often out and out ringers. Thirdly, the House dining-halls (with a single possible exception...
...Cleveland, after scientific tests with typists, Patent Attorney Frank M. Slough declared that the average typist does more manual labor in an eight-hour day than a ditchdigger...
...announcer's patent-leather voice was gliding over the air-waves. He spoke in a voice that was hushed with respect. "Music by Chopin . . arranged by Liszt . . . played by Paderewski!" And then the Master began to let his fingers ripple up and down the keyboard with a technique and tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem...