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Died. William Leslie Edison, 58, inventor, second of Thomas Alva Edison's three children by his first wife;* in Wilmington...
...idea of using movies in classrooms is as old as the movies themselves. Thomas Alva Edison thought that the movies would be more important as an educational than as an entertainment medium. Nevertheless, of the 10,000 "educational" films now catalogued and available in the U. S. the overwhelming majority are dull, amateurish, or technically obsolete. Of the two biggest professional producers. Eastman Kodak Co. has manufactured since 1926 some 200 silent films on historical and scientific subjects, Electrical Research Products Inc. a scanty 40 sound films. Most Hollywood producers think that the effective market is too small for profit...
Meanwhile the A. B. See Co. kept on making elevators first in Brooklyn and then in Jersey City, prospered in its quiet way. Son Alva B. See entered the business after graduating from presumably the least punishing prep school the Sees could find (Blair Academy), worked up to succeed his father as president in 1930. Biggest job the company ever handled was the installation of 24 elevators in New York County Courthouse, cost: $400,000. Its biggest job at present is being done for the Library of Congress. First disclosure of the company's financial status occurred last week...
...lamb its fleece was white as snow and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go." Thus, as his father had done before him, and on the same spot in Menlo Park, N. J., recited Assistant Secretary of Navy Charles Edison, son of the late Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, into the straight horn of the first phonograph ever manufactured, as part of the cornerstone ceremony of an Edison "Tower of Light" monument, to be surmounted by a 13-ft. incandescent bulb...
When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes...