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...Thomas Alva Edison denied that there were any airships over Nebraska, but there were plenty of loyal Nebraskans to testify that the pilot of one low-flying craft leaned out, snatched up a farmer's chicken and dropped a note. It read: "This dodgasted airship business is not what some people crack it up to be. My vehicle is out of order and will not come down. . . . Excuse haste and poor writing, and search for my remains...
...tough, six-mile Cripple Creek Carlton tunnel. On that job he flabbergasted veteran construction engineers by holing through in two years (the best estimated time was four to eight). This put Long John in the rockhog hall of fame. Two years ago he started the western end of the Alva Adams tunnel, a 13-mile tube 13,000 ft. beneath the crest of the Rockies. The Adams tunnel Government project intended to carry enough water from Grand Lake to Estes Park to irrigate 615,000 acres of Colorado sugar beets and to supply 900,000,000 k.w.h. of electricity...
Died. Nikola Tesla, 86, "electrical wizard," inventor of the Tesla transformer, the Tesla induction motor, discoverer of the rotary magnetic field principle; in Manhattan. Croat-born, he came to the U.S. in 1884, worked briefly for Thomas Alva Edison, became a great electrical inventor on his own. In his old age he holed up in hotel rooms, became an urban hermit, taped his doors and windows and tried to keep the room at a 90° temperature, had his vegetables boiled two hours, wiggled his toes several hundred times every night to "tone up." He also announced that...
Smashed and turned over to the war scrap collection in West Orange, N.J.: a brass and bronze horn built by Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in the mid-'20s to make phonograph recordings. Weight: five tons; length: 125 feet...
...Carr in 1938 and 1940 after 14 years in the Democratic column, set the stage for a bang-up struggle. Whichever party carries Colorado in November should get two Senate seats: the one now held by Democrat Edwin C. Johnson and one left vacant by the death of Democrat Alva B. Adams...