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...Thomas Alva Edison, pseudo-atavistic, grows expert with cocoanuts. At the South Florida fair blue ribbons were tacked to his cocoanuts. He had the best; also the largest cluster. Luther Burbank started him in the cocoanut game. Recently Mr. Edison extended his Florida agricultural activities to experiments for rubber vines...
...people of the United States fail to elect Herbert Hoover as the next president, they can be classed as a bunch of saps"?Thomas Alva Edison...
...Inventors. A shy man, pallid from years spent indoors over books and work tables, attended the demonstrations in Schenectady last week. He was Daniel McFarlan Moore, 58, known well wherever electrical technicians congregate, but little elsewhere. Graduated from Lehigh University in 1889 he at once found work with Thomas Alva Edison's Edison Co. Later he organized his own light and electric companies and, after 18 years, sold them to General Electric. Four years ago he invented vacuum bulbs used in telephotography (sending still pictures by electricity or radio); three years ago he improved the bulb so that...
Alkaline Cell. Lighter, but giving less than one and a half volts, is the alkaline cell which Thomas Alva Edison perfected. This contains a caustic potash solution; thin sheets of nickelplated steel contain shallow pockets. Pockets of the positive plate are filled with nickel peroxide mixed with a finely flaked metallic conductor. In pockets of the negative plate finely divided iron is mixed with the same metallic conductor. (Originally, in both plates, the conductor was graphite...
...from your own lips those immortal phrases which you spoke to me half a century ago." So another voice replied: Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. The second voice was that of Thomas Alva Edison. The first was really that of one Thomas Chalmers onetime of the Metropolitan Opera Company, but Mr. Edison and his friends pretended that it actually belonged to the phonograph...