Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison approached his 80th birthday (Feb. 11) ; in Bermuda, Dr. Francis Landey Pattton, 84, onetime (1888-1902) president of Princeton, celebrated his birthday; lectured to the local Rota,ry club. Dr. William Williams Keen, 90, of Philadelphia, also celebrated his birthday. John Davison Rockefeller,* 87, played golf in Florida with Soldier Adalbert Ames, 91, last Union Army gen eral. And in Detroit, Soldier Roland, 100, came forward. To memoralize the death of Empress Charlotte, he had put on all his medals, for once he had been a colonel of lancers under her hus band, Maximilian...
Thomas A. Edison Julius Rosenwald
...others named, Messrs. Rosenwald, Gary, Lowden and Young are subscribers. Messrs. Ford, Edison, Rockefeller, Mellon and Taft...
...does Mrs. Edison...
Phonographs toured the U.S., a great fad. But Mr. Edison's early improvements failed to make them commercially practicable. He dropped phonography for ten years, returning to it as his pet about 1890. He was convinced that its future was to assist stenography...