Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patent No. 2,042,987 was issued to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. for a radio-controlled torpedo which can reverse its course if it misses and steer for its target again. Outlined in his prospectus was a method for dispatching entire fleets of torpedoes in formation, which could be speeded or slowed as they made for their targets...
...which mows down whiskers without cream or lather, has found its way into 500,000 U. S. homes. Fortnight ago Colonel Schick came unbloodied through the first round of the year's biggest razor battle when the U. S. District Court in Brooklyn held that his basic patent for the Dry Shaver had been infringed by Dictograph Products...
...Charles W. Heath of Sioux City was granted a patent on a "submarine eye" for hunting sunken treasure. Essential feature is a television transmitter which will examine the sea floor, send pictures of what it sees to a screen on board the boat...
...South African named R. H. Harris offered to the British Government the patent rights on his method for exterminating the tsetse fly. The device consists of a dummy bullock with an electric light shining through a hole in its side. When the fly approaches to bite the bullock, it is attracted by the light, enters the dummy, cannot...
...Housman's achievements as a scholar, by one of his Cambridge associates. Seventy-two of the 137 pages in A. E. Hoisman are given over to a list of the poet's scattered writing; the remainder describe his early failures in Latin, his work in the Patent Office, his quarrels with other Latinists, his arrogance, acid humor, anti-social habits and desire to erect an imperishable monument to his name...