Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edmundo Almeida, Spanish Jesuit priest, has invented a new type electric storage battery. U. S. students who had heard him lecture on his battery at Cadiz, Seville and San Sebastian, Spain, during the spring, last week said that it was more efficient than the common acid battery or the Edison alkaline battery. The Argentine magazine Estudios gave details...
...your own lips those immortal phrases which you spoke to me half a century ago." So another voice replied: Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. The second voice was that of Thomas Alva Edison. The first was really that of one Thomas Chalmers onetime of the Metropolitan Opera Company, but Mr. Edison and his friends pretended that it actually belonged to the phonograph...
Homelier, Thomas A. Edison said: "He is getting sick...
...longest-playing U. S. records, announced last autumn by Thomas Alva Edison, have 450 grooves to the inch; play 40 minutes (TIME...
...Thomas Alva Edison scoff. He has been conducting an intricate and extensive series of experiments on some 200 trees, shrubs and other plants that produce a sap with the characteristics of rubber. Mr. Firestone said of him: "No one knows more about rubber than Edison." Said Mr. Edison of the Dutch East Indies report: "There is no doubt that the method will greatly increase output as well as cheapen it. ... I am not working to cheapen rubber. ... I believe enough rubber can be grown in the U. S. to. pull us through [in case of war]. The price...