Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18

whose intuition perhaps saved both
you at work"
She gayly admits that she made her
husband give up the spare room at
home and move his laboratory into the
cellar. An instructive love Of the kind
of work he Is doing. Mr.. Dunmore be-
neves, has been the major motive in
his career, rather than hope Of large
vironment in the department where
he Is employed-the United States
Bureau Of Standards-has kept him
there, though larger salaries have been
offered him by private interests.
Inventor by Instinct.
Hes an inventor by instinct" at
firmed Mrs; Dunmore. He Just can't
help It. He's expressing o though high
er than himself. What do I mean?
Why, there has to be q supreme intel
ligence, or you couldn't think and I
couldn't"
yes" agreed her husband modestly.
I'VE cannot claim credit for these
things personally. There has to be q
higher intelligence or we'd all be
dummies"
Both pondered q moment longer on
what keeps an inventor at work.
xOu Know 41OW ~ -, OOScHNS0 AnAS.
Dunmore. IF q woman gets an idea
for q dress she's about ready to bust
until she makes It,"
And her husband added: 1.-THE ideas
come intuitively. But reducing them
to practice takes years Of hard work"
Haverhill remembers Dunmere as Q
boy inventor. His father, the late Frank
H. Dunmore, for many years . Haver-
hill merchant, subsequently went with
a department store in Providence, r. I.
The junior Dunmore, who IS SO, fin
ished his preliminary schooling in
Providence Technical High School. then
lege, where q brother-in-law was head
Of the physics department. He was
graduated In 1915.
First Code Message.
In his Haverhill days Dunmore was
tinkertng with radio, and he rugged up
a transmitting machine and receiving
set. The first code message he picked
up was a news dispatch saying that
former President Roosevelt had bagged
two lions on his African expedition.
Mr.: Dunmore's earliest practical
training was In Greater Boston. After
leaving college he pursued for two years
the General Electric Co.'S engineering
course at Lynn. Later he spent six
months testing trench sets for the
Amrad Radio Corporation, Medford
Hillside. This was in 1917, when
America was entering the war, several
years before broadcaSting began.
Mr.. Dunmore told how he and Mr..
Lowell conceived the idea Of elimi-
mating the storage battery by taking
power lines. AS young Government en-
gineers Juggling heavy storage batteries
long distances to power receiving sets
used in picking up signals from Army
airplanes, they turned their thoughts
to the feasibility of discarding bat
teries. They were then doing research
work on aircraft radio relays.
Studied Aircraft Radio.
Four years ago Mr. Dunmore received q
license for q one-control superhetero.
dyne. Application Of radio to aircraft
service challenged his imagination. A
radio beacon for airways. q tuned Reed
indicator for use on aircraft in guiding
them through fog and q radio detector
for guiding ships through fog are some
Of the devices on which he has worked.
An transformations, friendly and In
formal chap, Mr.. Dunmore keeps his
emotions In leash and refuses to show
excitement over the litigation involving
his fortunes. Movie cameras are one
Of his hobbies. He enjoys o good NIL
steal program over the radio and likes
skating.
The special household pet Of the
Dunmores is q big black cat, for which
the inventor has built an observation
platform in q tree back Of his WASH
ington home. To keep tabs on the
pet Mr.. Dunmore has rugged up o de-
vice which rings O buzzer and lights
an electric signal every time the cat
comes in or goes out through q swing
ing door.
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