Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starter, electric cash register, etc. Around the table were nine others: Chrysler's crack Engineer Fred M. Zeder, Du Font's Research Director Fin Sparre, General Electric's Research Laboratory Director William David Coolidge, Dean Frederick M. Feiker of George Washington University School of Engineering, Manhattan Patent Lawyer (and Theatre Guild director) Lawrence Langner, Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s Vice President Thomas Midgley, Director Watson Davis of Science Service, Engineering Dean Webster N. Jones of Carnegie Tech, U. S. Patent Commissioner Conway Coe. Absent from the first meeting were Industrialist George Baekeland (Bakelite Corp.) and Dr. Orville...
Every week the U. S. Patent Office grants an average of 770 patents. Among inventions recently patented...
...would be rushed to completion this summer. Munitions plants and key industries were put on a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week schedule. Amazed and indignant was the Canadian public to learn that in aircraft and tank plants production had been delayed by the reluctance of British patent holders to supply plans and specifications...
Over two months ago Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., makers of about 50% of all the military optical goods sold in the U. S., was indicted under the Federal antitrust laws because it had an old sales & patent agreement with the German firm of Carl Zeiss. The agreement, Government men hinted, prevented B. & L. from selling range finders, gun sights and other fire-control instruments to the Allies...
...Horace Wells was not "Dazzled with hopes of a fortune. . . ." If he had been, he would have patented his discovery as he had patented two previous commercial discoveries, a coal sifter and a shower bath. When urged to patent this discovery, Wells declared, "No, let it be as free as the air we breathe...