Word: lindon
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...when German submarines were sinking U. S. oil tankers, oil was precious. One of the jobs of the Engineering Commission of Submarine Defense was to make oil go further. Its chairman, Lindon Wallace Bates, with the backing of the late Cameraman George Eastman, finally stabilized a 50% mixture of coal dust in oil. The U. S. S. Gem tested it successfully. After the War, Inventor Bates learned that two Germans had invented a similar fuel in 1914. He bought up their patents, developed his fuel still further...
...Greenpoint fire. His English contracts were broken. Litigation dragged on until 1929. In 1924 Bates had died in France of a paralytic stroke. A Vermonter and Yaleman, consulting engineer at various times for Australia, Russia, Belgium, he was moved to look for a cheaper fuel when his son Lindon Jr. went down on the Lusitania in 1915. His patents, 20 in the U. S., 15 in Canada, including the basic Plauson-Schroeder patent, now belong to another son, Lindell Theodore Bates, Manhattan lawyer. The foreign patents have lapsed...