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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during that school's first year, when it had no buildings of its own but only rented rooms in the midst of Boston. In 1882 he was a recently acquired young partner of the old New York banking firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co. Boston born and bred, he had already established among the more flamboyant New Yorkers a quiet reputation as a thorough investigator and sound organizer of the projects into which men put money...
When Edison Electric Illuminating Co. was formed in 1884 to introduce electric lighting in New York City, young Banker Adams went on its board of directors as a matter of course. Equally as a matter of course he left it in 1889-when he entered a sphere of activity more significant even than the early Edison companies, a sphere of historic significance in any year celebrative of Electric Light. He resigned from his Edison connection because it was necessary for him to make a fundamental decision about this new electrical industry which was growing up. The decision lay between Direct...
...Edison had surveyed Niagara Falls on his own initiative in 1886. His first assistance to the new-formed Cataract Construction Co. consisted simply in repeating that electric power could be transmitted from the Falls, as Direct Current...
...this opinion he was joined by the late great George Westinghouse. Both counselled against attempting to make and transmit Alternating Current, despite its comparative cheapness. Mr. Westinghouse had an alternative idea-Compressed Air, upon which he had been experimenting (e.g. his air-brake). The original plans of Cataract Construction Co. actually called for a plant at the Falls whence Mr. Westinghouse felt confident he could transmit compressed air to take the place of steam behind industrial pistons in Buffalo, 20 mi. away...
...Automotive Daily News. On May 15, Automotive Daily News, automobile trade paper, published a story concerning an alleged new Reo eight. Reo Motor Car Co. promptly filed suit for one million dollars libel, calling the story "utterly false and without foundation." Reo's President Richard H. Scott took a page advertisement in metropolitan dailies to denounce the "pastime of originating and circulating falsehoods about motor industry," and improved the opportunity to cheer for the Reo six and to flay eights in general. He has seen no eight as good...