Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victor instruments were evolved upon a basic patent taken out in 1887 by of Thomas Alva Edison, primarily in that the spiral sound-recording lines incised upon the records have a uniform depth and zig-zag laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank...
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison entered the lists against further skyscrapers. Health officers, mayors' advisers and Henry Ford all cried halt, for obvious practical reasons. And there was a more vociferous though less effective chorus of sociologists, artists and philosophers crying out upon the "Babylonish jumble" of modern city-building. Of this faction, the logical leader was silent. Being a church-builder he was not one to whom newsgatherers would soon run for comments on a dispute in commercial architecture. Yet it was he who years ago wrote: "A walk up Fifth Avenue in New York, from Madison Square...
Columbus discovered America; Hudson discovered New York; Benjamin Franklin discovered the spark That Edison discovered would light...
...Senator Marconi is no laboratory-hugging genius like the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz or Thomas Alva Edison. He hunts the fox, rides the bicycle, dines at his club, has parties of young people aboard his yacht. In conquering a new world he has not lost...
...softly glowing path to their seats in a darkened theatre. But large further sums were spent on such bric-a- brackery, such articles of virtu, as 37 bronze-labeled stones from foreign countries in the "Hall of Nations." This hall also contains a bronze bas-relief of Thomas A. Edison, who presented the first practical cinema reel (1894), scenes of prize fights, fencing matches, dances and vaudeville skits. Inventor Edison was so intent on maintaining the profitable novelty of his pictures in the U. S. that he neglected to patent his process abroad. The side rooms of the theatre...