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...start of World War II, four of the five scientists who applied for the patent had escaped from Mussolini's Italy and come to the U.S. Soon both they and their patent vanished underground. The slow neutron process was the basis of the early nuclear reactors; without it, there could have been no plutonium. Enrico Fermi saw his neutrons fire up the first reactor at Chicago...
...group of Italian scientists led by Enrico Fermi applied for a U.S. patent on a process that looked, at the time, about as impractical as a bridge of butterflies' wings. While working together in Rome, they had discovered that neutrons (themselves discovered in 1932) could be slowed down by passage through water or paraffin. Thus slowed, the neutrons were much more likely to be captured by other elements, making them radioactive. A friend of the scientists, Gabriel M. Giannini,* thought the process might have commercial value, but practically no one else did. Such great U.S. companies as Du Pont...
During Spain's Civil War, Bodo sold munitions to the Spanish Loyalists, thereby got on the wrong side of his old friends the Germans, who refused him patent rights to produce 88-mm. shells for guns supplied to Greece by the Germans. Athanassiades went ahead and made the 88-mm. shells anyway-and thus gave the Greek army a stockpile of ammunition with which to chase Mussolini's forces back into Albania. "They could do it," says Bodo, "only because...
...Outside groups" should get more liberal patent rights on atomic-energy developments. At present, the Government gets the rights to developments made by private companies under contract...
...from Michigan, who got $30 million. The Dodge Brothers, who had taken stock in lieu of payment for some of the engines they supplied Ford, got $25 million, which helped buttress their own famed company. * An act which later cost Ford $9,000,000 to settle Ferguson's patent infringement suit...