Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house his school, which he named Cooper Union, the wealthy inventor (a washing machine, the "Tom Thumb" locomotive, a musical cradle that rocked itself) and iron and glue manufacturer had built a handsome five-story structure on Astor Place, hired 21 faculty members. Two thousand artisans and working girls enrolled the first year for the Union's free courses, e.g., mathematics, chemistry, mechanical philosophy, theoretical and practical mechanics, drawing, vocal music. Cooper established weekly lectures in social philosophy, set up a public library and reading room, and a school of design to train "respectable females" for suitable jobs...
...certificates of graduation in fine arts, graphic arts and architecture. Three evenings a week there were public lectures in the Great Hall on subjects ranging from atomic fission to Indonesian dances. Among the Union's eminent alumni had been Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Labor Leader Samuel Gompers, Scientist-Inventor Michael Pupin. Moreover, Cooper Union had served as inspiration for a number of privately endowed technical schools (e.g., Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology) across the country...
...Anderson, a quiet, intelligent and pleasant woman of 40, lives on the good earth of Minnesota - the 400-acre estate left by her father-in-law, the late Alexander Pierce Anderson, inventor of Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice. But she and her husband-Abstract Artist John Pierce Anderson-are hardly horny-handed tillers of the soil. Eugenie Anderson has traveled in Europe, studied music in Manhattan's Juilliard School. She has an intellectual's taste in art, books and music. Nevertheless, the appointment, which made her the first U.S. woman to become an ambassador, seemed like a pleasant...
...Aurex' Walter H. Huth. The little whisper-catcher is an inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among other things, 1) listening to sermons, and 2) helping foxhunters catch the bay of distant hounds...
Professor Howard Aiken, co-inventor of the original calculating machine, and Director of the Harvard Computation Laboratory had general supervision of the project...