is awarded for inventions of high order and for particularly and developments in machines and mechanical processes.
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To SAMUEL RUBEN, DIRECTOR, RUBEN LABORATORIES, NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK. “In consideration of his many useful inventions and especially the electrolytic capacitor and the mercuric oxide-zinc battery, the former of which is an essential component of all television and radio sets, and the latter, an essential component of the implantable cardiac pacemaker which has prolonged the lives of many people.”