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...Institute of Music give lim time, he likes nothing better than to work in the laboratory of his Merion, Pa., home. By himself he has built three motor cars, three motor boats which he keeps at his summer lome in Camden, Maine. He has invented a combination gas & oil burner, folding skates, a system of pivoted reflections to vary the resonance of a piano, a shock absorber...
...office is in Room No. 12, Third Floor, of the ancient building at No. 53 Devonshire St., Boston. No changes have been made since the road was leased, the office has no typewriters or telephones in it. On dark days the gloomy office is illuminated by a two-burner gas jet. The annual report is read from a sheet of foolscap and the ballots for election of directors are written in longhand. Stockholders are furnished free transportation to the annual meeting under the terms of the lease, but none appeared at the last meeting...
...many potent clients- among them Radio Corp., Timken Oil Burner, Studebaker Motors, Westinghouse Electric, Cleveland Tractor, Hoover Vacuum Cleaner, Detroit Aircraft, Koken Barber Supply, Hudson Motors, Majestic Radio, Petroleum Heat & Power...
...many ramifications of the science. It is important above all in a field where laboratory work occupies so great a proportion of attention, not to neglect the theoretic investigation of the allied sciences, lest concentrators in the Division become mere followers of cook book directions over a Bunsen burner...
...curiosity-consumed railroad newsboy, puttering with chemicals in a baggage car, set the car on fire. At the next station, Smith's Creek, he was thrown off the train by a fuming conductor. Last week the incident was re-enacted with variations. Again a dinky, funnel-stacked, wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Nearby a lean, keen-eyed...