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Metropolitan Life Fountain of Light patent shines over Tampa sky
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company displays a sky projector called Fountain of Light from a Tampa building. Inventors Charles Neenan and Thomas Lemons describe a rotating umbrella ground wheel, blue glass beacon, and a visible logo. the display vanishes at midnight. Other patents include a protective Lexan shield in an attache case and GE battery powered clocks with pendulum movers. Louisiana State University Foundation develops a cellulose based digestible food from waste materials.
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Stacy V. Jones
New York Times
Washington
Metropolitan Life On Com
Allie
Tampa
Charles Neenan
New York
Thomas M.lemons
Marblehead
Mass
Metropolitan
Oxford
Anthony E. Sgariglia Jr
Louisiana State University Foundation
Baton Rouge
Clayton D. Callihan
Vadake RR. Srinivasan
Louisiana State
Charles E. Dunlap
University of Missouri