Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a Congressional committee turned down his vote-recorder because Congressmen preferred the roll-call, he vowed: "I will never invent anything that isn't wanted again." Thus when he came accidentally across wireless waves, he took out a patent but, seeing no use at the time for this "etheric force," forgot it until he sold his right to Marconi in 1903. A need was his cue to start working; as when his friend. Rubberman Harvey Firestone sent to Liberia for materials. Forthwith Edison started his last experiments: U. S. rubber production from golden...
...Esnault-Pelterie applied for a U. S. patent on what he now calls the singlestick control. The patent was issued in 1914, will expire Nov. 3 next. Seven years ago Esnault-Pelterie filed suit against the U. S. because planes used by Army & Navy had joy-sticks.* Also he sued Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Co. and Chance-Vought Corp. for their commercial planes. The Fairchild com pany settled out of court this year. The Vought case is pending in New York. The claim against the Government lay dormant until recently when Claims Com missioner Hayner H. Gordon reopened the case. Should...
...when looked into more profoundly this act assumes a different color. In his denial of consent in the case of the Army game he was not thinking of the welfare of football in general but of the game as it was related to Harvard. Accordingly no inconsistency is patent...
Died. Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, 87, famed agricultural chemist; of heart disease; in Madison, Wis. His greatest contribution: the standard means of determining the butterfat content of milk. He refused to patent or exploit his discovery, saying "no one man was large enough to own a key to dairy prosperity." Last year he received the Capper publications' award for distinguished service to agriculture...
...case at issue was the renewal of 1,403 Federal licenses granted four subsidiaries of Radio Corp. of America (National Broadcasting, RCA Communications, Radiomarine. RCA-Victor). A Federal Court in Delaware had found that RCA by its patent manufacturing licenses was attempting to monopolize vacuum tubes. The Federal Radio Act bars from the air monopolies of "radio communication." The Radio Protective Association asked the Federal Radio Commission to enforce the law and put RCA off the air (TIME, June 29). This, last week, the Commission, in a 3-to-2 decision, refused to do. A literal-minded majority scanned...