Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kodakman George Eastman had some guests-Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Michael I. Pupin, General John J. Pershing, Owen D. Young and many another bigwig-at his home in Rochester, N. Y., last week. He showed them some motion pictures in color. He told them how simple the process was. Years of complicated experiments have gone into developing the Kodacolor film, minutes of mechanical adjustment are enough to operate it. Color photography is still imperfect; not all the primary colors can be made to go into the eye of a camera and come out lifelike but such...
Thomas A. Edison-,-returning to his West Orange (N. J.) laboratory from rubber-hunting experiments in the South last week, found his workers smoking cigarets; promptly posted this notice. Pipes, cigars, chewing tobacco are not banned...
Pulverized coal is not a recent invention. The Ford Co., the N. Y. Edison Co.. all the big new power stations are familiar with its advantages, much to the envy of ship owners. But the separate furnaces on vessels created problems of distribution and firing that made powdered coal impracticable for them. These problems have now been solved...
Only in 1873, at Vienna, was it discovered that one electric dynamo could make another rotate. The second became a motor, and the electric transmission of power came within the possibilities of engineering. A Russian, Paul Jablochkov, invented the arc light in 1876; Thomas Edison the incandescent light in 1879. In 1881 Thomas Edison opened the first public electric supply station. And only five years later Tokyo, for more than two centuries secluded from European and U. S. science, also had its electric light system. The Tokyo Electric Light Co. was the innovation. It first served current for 75 lamps...
Although the company 42 years ago served current to only 75 lights, last year it manufactured and purchased 2,614,978,628 kilowatt hours of current. In the U. S. only three companies-Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power Corp. System, the Commonwealth Edison Co. and the New York Edison Co. System-surpassed it. The Tokyo company serves 11,395 sq. mi. across the most populous and highly developed midsection of Nippon, Japan's main island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm...