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...Eventually he reached his week's goal- Inventor Thomas Alva Edison's 80th birthday party at West Orange, N. J. Mr. Ford, genial, amiable, yelled newspapermen's questions into Mr. Edison's ear. Mr. Edison is quite deaf. Harvey S. Firestone, Akron rubberman, watched...
Today Thomas Alva Edison, most illustrious product of the Horatio Alger academy of success, reaches his eightieth year. And with the festival come congratulatory telegrams by the basket full: flowers--and Henry Ford. Honor comes to whom honor is due. For Edison is one of those fortunate geniuses who has received fame while he is still able to enjoy it. On him--as on only too few--are showered flowers for the living...
...Jersey, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison approached his 80th birthday (Feb. 11) ; in Bermuda, Dr. Francis Landey Pattton, 84, onetime (1888-1902) president of Princeton, celebrated his birthday; lectured to the local Rota,ry club. Dr. William Williams Keen, 90, of Philadelphia, also celebrated his birthday. John Davison Rockefeller,* 87, played golf in Florida with Soldier Adalbert Ames, 91, last Union Army gen eral. And in Detroit, Soldier Roland, 100, came forward. To memoralize the death of Empress Charlotte, he had put on all his medals, for once he had been a colonel of lancers under her hus band, Maximilian...
...Victor instruments were evolved upon a basic patent taken out in 1887 by of Thomas Alva Edison, primarily in that the spiral sound-recording lines incised upon the records have a uniform depth and zig-zag laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank...
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison entered the lists against further skyscrapers. Health officers, mayors' advisers and Henry Ford all cried halt, for obvious practical reasons. And there was a more vociferous though less effective chorus of sociologists, artists and philosophers crying out upon the "Babylonish jumble" of modern city-building. Of this faction, the logical leader was silent. Being a church-builder he was not one to whom newsgatherers would soon run for comments on a dispute in commercial architecture. Yet it was he who years ago wrote: "A walk up Fifth Avenue in New York, from Madison Square...