Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patent for improved photographic technique was taken out in 1868 by a lady named Sarah A. L. Hardinge. In the 70 years which followed, she and her descendants took out 174 other patents. Mrs. Hardinge's smart son, Hal, for instance, invented a machine which pulverizes ore by feeding it into a whirling drum containing a lot of little steel balls. Many a fortune has been made with it. It became generally known last week that Mrs. Hardinge's smart grandson had added a smart refinement to his father's famed "ball process" of ore reduction...
Leon Henderson, Isador Lubin and Willard Thorp (TIME, Dec. 12). Shortly thereafter Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice trucked across the floor waggling a finger at patent monopoly in the glass container industries (TIME, Dec. 26). Last week it was the turn of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. As everyone knows, Bill Douglas is a very agile fellow and when he revealed that his dancing partner would be the insurance business-far too dignified for Big Appling-everyone knew it would be fun watching...
Although the new company will be nowhere nearly as big as RCA (or Philco Radio & Television Co. and Zenith Radio Corp. which are also equipped to make television sets), it has the strongest patent position in television outside of RCA. Philo Farnsworth owns 55 patents, has 78 pending, is positive that no television sender or receiver can be made without using some of his patents. But neither can Philo Farnsworth build a set without the patents of RCA's Zworykin, and so Farnsworth and RCA will cross-license each other...
...after a year's investigation, his office had learned about "a number" of the Judge's acts, of which he listed six, including: > Acceptance by Judge Manton or his corporations of $77,000 from a go-between for the late Promoter Archie M. Andrews, whose Packard razor patent suit Judge Manton helped to decide in Andrews' favor. > Accepting $50,000 in loans from Harry M. Warner (to whom $40,000 has been repaid) whose motion picture company won a patent case with Judge Manton presiding. > Receiving personally or for business enterprises...
Inventions for which patents have recently been granted by the U. S. Patent Office...