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...Inventors in this country have always been popular idols. We tell young school children about the inventions of Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison. We have been blessed by a number of men who had the spark of genius to conceive of a steamboat, a cotton gin, a dynamo or an incandescent lamp and numerous other machines and processes on which so much of life today depends. Nothing in the world is so potent with possibilities as a new idea, and really new ideas are rare and the product of genius. (Not all inventions are of this class. Though...
That is the keynote, hub, axle, dynamo, driving force, central idea of Rotary?SERVICE?and Rotarians have sent emissaries all over the world to pass the word along and plant more Rotary Clubs, each composed of 50 to 200 representatives of separate professions and "lines...
...kind of preliminary warming up for the real job which is to come later in the professional school. And this conception is not infrequently due to his elders prat about "pure" science and "applied" science. It seems to him a far cry from the simple steam-engine and the dynamo of his first courses in physics, to a fifty thousand kilowatt turbo-generator. Although some of his courses may be labelled "physics" and other "engineering" they are all part of some field of science...
...named "the Colonel House of Boston." Prohibition Chief Lincoln C. Andrews saw himself tending bar to a furtive, thirsty Uncle Sam. Very few Gridiron perennials were dragged out but Coolidge Silence got its time-honored mention, as did the Coolidge electrical horse. The latter, however, was rechristened "Old Dynamo, by Tom Edison out of Electric Socket...
...politicians in Indiana knew Stephenson. . . . I always was afraid to give him my confidence, and never did, because there was something about the man that always warned me not to do it. I was afraid he might push out, because he was, in a way a human dynamo and, at the time of his supremacy, might have controlled 150,000 votes in Indiana by his "ipse dixit...