Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Regarding oil shale, on the disposal of which he was challenged recently by an underling (TIME, Oct. 13), he declared: "No leases have been issued under this Administration. But oil-shale claims valid in 1920 can be taken to patent under the. mining law, without any discretionary power in this department to decline to issue the patent...
...devised an airplane engine powered by nitroglycerin. A roll of ordinary ticker-tape, turned into guncotton, was fed between two copper rolls into the cylinder and exploded electrically. But when the engine itself exploded and injured an assistant, Edison abandoned the project. In 1910 he secured a patent for a helicopter type, said to embody a number of tetrahedral (box) kites to be whirled about a vertical axis...
Died. Frederick Perry Fish, 74, corporation and patent lawyer, onetime (1901-07) president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., onetime member of Harvard's Board of Overseers, member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Corporation and executive committee, associate of Radcliffe College; in Brookline, Mass...
...when an affiliate of the original and potent Robert Bosch Aktiengesellschaft of Stuttgart was formed in the U. S. as Robert Bosch Magneto Co., Inc. Immediately Robert Bosch Magneto Co. started to do battle with what it considered the illegitimate offspring of the first U. S. Bosch company. Patent litigation over the name continued for many years, was decided in favor of the U. S. company a year ago (TIME, July i, 1929). But Robert Bosch prepared to appeal for the right to use his own name and last winter a truce was established. To run 49 years, it provided...
Garnet Carter has part interest in patent rights on the use of cottonseed hulls or other "comminuted flocculent vegetable material" as putting greens (TIME, July 14; Aug. n). His patents on hollow-log and other hazards are still pending. A great rival-Miniature Golf Courses of America Inc.-had sprung up to compete with his Tom Thumb Golf. Wisely they compromised on the market: to Miniature Golf, the indoor courses; to Tom Thumb the open spaces. Latest Department of Commerce figures for this fast-growing U. S. business put the total investment at $325,000,000 for 30,000 courses...