Once shown a letter, he could find the culprit machine.It was therefore ironic that his most famous achievement was to build a typewriter at the request of the defence lawyers for Alger Hiss, who was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviet Union.
In the last six years the present writer has prepared 27 reports at the request of either the defence or the prosecution in such contested cases.
With court cases in Brazil often dragging on for more than a decade, other newspapers revelled in the judge's rejection of defence request for more time as a "cynical tactic" and his refusal to accept an appeal that the São Paulo government had no jurisdiction.
In 1979, the Australian and New Zealand Governments, at the request of Pacific Island nations, sent defence representatives into the South-West Pacific region to assess surveillance and maritime patrol requirements.
On 13 April Ustinov informed Petrov that the State Committee of Defence had requested for five of the new guns to be sent to the testing grounds on 1 May.
Her order came at the end of the day following a request from the defence to protect the privacy of Pistorius and his family.
Given the fuss over the way the Commerce Department administered the legislation, perhaps that should come as no surprise.Escape velocityIn December Bigelow Aerospace filed a commodity-jurisdiction request which would oblige the Directorate of Defence Trade Controls to rule whether one of its products, a set of inflatable space habitats, should be on the State Department's munitions list.
Borisav Jović, the Serbian representative on the collective Presidency of Yugoslavia, supported a request by Yugoslav Defence Minister Veljko Kadijević to send the JNA to the scene.
At Mr Ugaz's request, the defence minister has ordered an audit of all military purchases since 1990.Then there is the drugs trade.
In line with normal practice, the commission analysed the reasons for the request and granted an extension allowing Google to fully exercise its rights of defence," said Commission spokesperson Ricardo Cardoso in a statement.
Solway, Guatemala's ministry of defence and the ministry of the interior did not return requests for comment.
