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...years Samuel Finley Breese Morse never attended a National Inventors' Congress. Neither did Alexander Graham Bell, nor Thomas Alva Edison, nor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. Nevertheless hundreds of lesser inventors, any one of whom might become a Morse, a Bell or an Edison overnight, were assembled in Hollywood last week for the National Inventors' Congress. These were not the bigwigs of industrial and academic laboratories. They were the humble rank & file of U. S. idea men, indefatigable purveyors of small ingenuities, perpetual optimists who swell the total of U. S. patents to some 50,000 a year. For example...
...quadruplex message problem was solved by Thomas Alva Edison...
Back of Governor Edwin Carl Johnson, country politician and son of a Swedish immigrant, was the Adams family organization. An Adams has held elective office in Colorado ever since Statehood (1876). Present political chief of the clan is Junior Senator Alva Blanchard Adams. A conservative small town banker, Senator Adams split with Senator Costigan over the New Deal, would like to oust onetime Republican Costigan from the Democratic Party...
...size of the gift-$158.000-surprised many people but pleased none more than it did a gentle, plump-faced old lady who helped in the campaign. Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison remembers the earliest days of the Institution. Her father. Lewis Miller, an Akron inventor, founded it with the help of Bishop John Heyl Vincent and there in 1885 Tom Edison paid court to Mina Miller. Later Inventor Edison be came honorary president of the Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle which for years scattered books for home reading over the marble-topped parlor tables of the land...
Sued for Divorce. Paul Gallico, sports editor of the tabloid New York Daily News; by Mrs. Alva Taylor Gallico; in Reno. Charge: cruelty...