Show THESE FROM COCKROACH KILLERS TO MOVIE DEVICES HE INVENTS THEM ALL By DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer REDONDO BEACH DEACH Calif Apr The worM world does not know knowE E ard 1 Amet Ainet But Dut practically every civilized country has hene bene- benefited Irons the Inventions ot of this year old man Arnot Amet makes no claim to fame lie He works quietly In a small shop hack back of his Leach beach home here When his Inventions are perfect perfect- Nl 01 he sells them but never shouts about his triumphs Amet really eaily should le be ranked with such men as Edison nell Bell Fullon Marconi l and others Per Per- Perhaps haps lie he will when ho h Is gone front from this world NEARLY PATENTS lOr I now have close to pat exits declared the Inventor whom I stumbled across quite ac ac- accidentally They are on aU all kinds of devices ranging from cock cock- cockroach roach killers to new mo- mo molion lion pIcture apparatus tul If I Am ever vell eU known It probably will lIe ho Lo use of the tho things I 1 have invented for COl the movies r I made malIc several cral Improvements upon tipon Thomas Invention a machine for tor producing motion pictures r tie tie- a 11 stop and start with a and combined them on one base with an arc light and con con- condenser denser densel lense leisso That made the tho pro pro- proJection projection of pictures much smooth or er c i S C EDWARD AMET Amet oo l thC orl original U i. to no i 1 by S SIto Ito thu was In l ii IJ that j lie he devised devi a machine DI that syn synchronized sound with the plc- plc tures It was hailed as a great Invention at that tune time but fall fail d to keep progress ogress with wills the rest of the industry r I never became an Inventor I Iwas Iwas was born bom this Wt Wi ho he explained In answer in 10 my question My Iy first work was it-as in ISH 1871 when I devised rubber felt overshoes Then came Iso cockroach killer consisting of nn an old Induction coil coli coila a battery and a sheet or of tinfoil on onn n a piece or of glass I invented that for Cor my mother because she sho waS waSI troubled with cockroaches in the I I kitchen I entered the telephone field and contrived the re re- reI resistance I element which permitted II i conversations to be carried on at much greater distancEs distancE's Soon af afterwards I I be ame telegraph op op- fa for I a Chicago Ice corn com pany Whilo on that jo job I de de- designed signed a machine to cut reeds front from Ih lIst lake hake surface so the Ice would form perfectly I IWas was fired for that From Irom tho ho financial standpoint the best beat thing I vcr ever invented was wasa a scale for tor weighing freight cars as they passed over It at a speed ot of six miles mUes an hour These scales are still In lS use Oil also attracted me and at- at after ter more than a year ear of stead steady work I found g a method or of oh- oh taming oil and releasing Its by byproducts products at the WEll The cx- cx pense waa wa tines tiMes lest than the co cost t ot of the usual process My was used un Ul Ill the advent or of the D en- en engIne engine gIne which revolutionized oil pro pro- production Edward AUld Arnet is now at atan an age where many men from an active business ss life nut But he has no thoughts or of that lIe will I continue to Invent as aJ long os as ho he call travel lio ho Short distance Lo be- between I tween his home and shop |