Word: slicers
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Then the monarch went back to his hobbies: billiards and turning the handle of his grocer's bacon-slicer...
...housewives' butter slicer run by a flashlight battery...
...with the one company able to supply his plant with badly needed spindles. Then he not only invented his own, but wrote a lengthy treatise on why his were better, and finally started to sell them in competition. Sometimes he invents for the fun of it, i.e., his butter slicer, or to keep his mind sharp. Once he was badly pinched for a special steel to fill an order for tank axles for an auto company. The company had steel, but warned Saffady that it did not meet the specifications. He bought the steel anyway, worked out a new method...
...happy harmony." California-born 51 years ago, Albert Burns invented a lock for Model T Fords, sold 800,000. He worked in a tea and coffee store, directed a chamber of commerce, ran a wholesale business, managed a sanitarium and some textile mills, invented and marketed a successful bread-slicer. He joined the National Inventors Congress in 1928, became its paid president (at $3,600 a year) in 1931. His function is to aid, promote, protect, advise. Mr. Burns is proud when newspapers call him the "Nation's Gadget Chief...
...problem of using light for spectra more efficiently has goaded skygazers for years. Astronomers at Mt. Wilson and California Institute of Technology were putting their money last week on a device called an "image-slicer," invented by Caltech's quiet, brilliant Ira Sprague Bowen. No bigger than a child's fist, this gadget splits up the blobby image of a star or nebula into a number of thin strips by means of a combination of mirrors which feed each one of the strips through the one-thousandth-inch spectroscope slit. After passing through, these slices of light...