Word: edisonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empirical style was deeply shared by his associates. The flavor of the man and his time was caught by George Bernard Shaw, who worked briefly for an Edison company in London in 1879 and whose novel, The Irrational Knot, had an Edisonian hero. Edison's American employees, said Shaw, were "free-souled creatures, excellent company; sensitive, cheerful and profane; liars, braggarts and hustlers." Every one of them, Shaw noted, "adored Mr. Edison as the greatest man of all time in every possible department of science, art and philosophy...
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