Word: alva
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Engineer Sprague was never a man for titles or labels. In 1889 he sold his Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co. to Thomas Alva Edison. Forthwith his name was wiped from the rolling stock of 113 U. S. and foreign electric railways and from all items of construction, equipment and control, Edison's name being substituted. Later he sold his electric elevator company to Otis Elevator Co. Electric traction had many other fathers -including Siemens Co. in Germany, Stephen D. Field, Charles J. Van Depoele, Leo Daft-but Frank Julian Sprague first conceived the idea of a car moving freely...
...First Century Christian Fellowship." In Washington, said he, Herbert Hoover received his party. To one meeting went Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone? Present at a meeting in Dearborn, Mich, were Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Soul Surgeon Buchman said that his movement had also interested Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison and Harvey Firestone...
Samuel Insull still recalls with pride that he was born, 72 years ago, in England. From boyhood he had great admiration for Thomas Alva Edison. By a quirk of fate he answered an advertisement for a secretary, found out that the man who had inserted the advertisement was Edison's London representative. Edison was struck with Mr. Insull's weekly reports, sent for him in 1881. For eleven years they worked together, Mr. Insull learning much about the technical side of the young light & power business. In 1892 Mr. Insull wrote to the capitalists controlling four-year-old Chicago Edison...
...first Kodak appeared in 1888, contained film for 100 pictures which, when taken, were sent back (camera & all) to the Kodak factory for development. Hence the famed slogan: "You press the button. We do the rest." The development of a flexible, transparent photographic film in 1889 coincided with Thomas Alva Edison's early cinema experiments. Edison bought $2.50 worth of Eastman film, turned to an assistant and said: "That's it [the film]?now work like hell [on the camera...
...that they could be moved into the gallery at all, these latest Rivera murals were constructed in steel frames. Even so they had to be set up. plastered and painted in the Heckscher Building itself. Rivera arrived in New York a month ago with his faithful plasterer Ramon Alva, his pretty little Mexican wife, the former Frieda Kahlo, and has been painting his exhibition ten hours a day. only stopping to drink great quantities of milk...