Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kites. In Manhattan, Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, for 16 years chief engineer of Thomas Alva Edison, suggested that all steamships carry kites for rescue work in seas too heavy for lifeboats and Lyle (rope-shooting) guns. The kite could be flown over the distressed ship, line, rope and finally a heavy cable being attached to its string. The cable would drag in the water, be towed to its destination. Then the breeches buoy could be used...
...sprang back with a sharp cry. Workers of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. were called. They found that a short-circuited conduit had given the puddle a charge of 120 volts...
...group of those favoring the adoption of the metric system is wide and notable. It includes among scientists Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank and Glenn H. Curtiss. It includes Leonard Wood and Admiral Sims. It includes Elihu Root, John Barton Payne, Newton D. Baker and William G. McAdoo. It included John Hays Hammond and Samuel Vauclain. It includes Arthur Brisbane and Dr. Frank Crane, and includes General Pershing, who saw the A. E. F. acquire the use of it in France and found it both convenient and not too hard to learn. Its proponents argue for it that no country...
...Edison. In Manhattan, the Edison Pioneers celebrated with a dinner the 79th birth anniversary of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Mr. Edison basked in the sun at Fort Myers, Fla., but sent them a telegram: "Many thanks. Feeling fine. Weather beautiful. Coconuts are dropping all over the place. Wish you were here." To newspapermen of whom he entertained two large parties during the day, he said: "I couldn't retire. Just like trying to stop smoking cigarets. . . . Inventions are away ahead of the people...
Some time ago Congress authorized the Patent Office to turn over models of old inventions to the Smithsonian Institution and give away or destroy all models not wanted by the museum. More than 2,000 requests for old models have been made. The longest request was from Thomas A. Edison-five closely typed pages listing all his early inventions. Henry Ford made a blanket request for all mechanical engineering devices not wanted by the Government...