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...craft on the Bay, Chief Boatswain Kahle taxied about for an hour, found no trace of Lieutenants Victor F. Marinelli and George Lehman, nor of Machinist Mates L. E. Poyner and George M. McMichaels. The U. S. S. Teal, Navy tender, patrolled all that night but its searchlight picked out nothing beyond fragments of wing fabric, pieces of fuselage. Against lightning, rarely an accurate enemy, flyers of steel birds have no defense...
Uses predicted; Letting dusk and dawn turn a city's lights on and off automatically; letting burglars announce their presence with their own flashlights, fires with their own glare; counting persons or automobiles passing by their shadows; stopping a train by its own searchlight or vibrations...
...suspension papers on Warden Tynan. Said he: "You can say for me-and I don't mean maybe-that anyone trying to break into this prison will get the same dose as anyone trying to break out." Jesting friends of Governor Morley took pot shots at the prison searchlight, exploded mammoth firecrackers before the prison door...
...skulls and stage-coach axles still bleach and rust in forgotten gulches of the Rocky Mountain foothills. But the West is "civilized," has been for some time, and with it Colorado. The funicular up Pike's Peak is 35 years old and for 21 years there has been a searchlight on the summit. The $2,500,000 State Capitol was finished way back in 1895. Denver still smelts lead for bullets and other useful articles, but for at least two decades tame agriculture, led by stub-horned cattle and sugar made from cowbeets, has been twice as important to Denver...
...light field, it is 47 years since he won practical adoption for his first invention; 43 years since he erected a 40,000-candle-power beacon on Lake Michigan. Last week, at the Electrical and Industrial Exposition in Manhattan, Army engineers demonstrated the two-billion-candle-power searchlight he had made them (TIME, March 30, 1925), by which a man 40 miles away can see to read a newspaper. Coincidentally, it was also the 47th anniversary of Thomas Alva Edison's perfection of a 16-candle-power electric lamp...