Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edison Medal. The most coveted scientific award in America is probably the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, awarded annually for "meritorious achievement in electricity." The Edison Medal for 1923 was awarded to John William Lieb, operating Vice President of the New York Edison Co., who has made New York the model light and power city of the world. Over 30 years ago, when Lieb was just out of Stevens Tech, he got a job with Thomas A. Edison. The firm had a contract to build a great electrical plant in Italy. "Send Lieb," said Edison...
Twenty years ago a group of Edison's engineering friends established the medal as a permanent tribute to the original electrical wizard, with an endowment to be administered by the A. I. E. E. The medal committee consists of 24 men carefully chosen to reflect all shades of opinion and is periodically changed. Each medallist must be chosen by a two-third vote, several have been unanimous. The medal was designed by James Earle Fraser, the sculptor, and bears upon its face a striking profile of Edison; upon the reverse an allegorical relief: "The Genius of Electricity Crowned by Fame...
Kelvin Medal. Dr. Elihu Thomson, first recipient of the Edison Medal, was awarded the Kelvin Gold Medal, one of the highest British scientific honors. It was founded in 1914 by British and American engineers, and is awarded triennially by the presidents of the representative British societies. Dr. W. C. Unwin, leading hydraulic engineer of England, was the only previous winner. The Electrical World, in commenting, says of Elihu Thomson: "The 700 patents issued to him by the U. S. are a monument to his inventive work, which has extended to almost every field of electrical application...
...have in mind that an Edison or a Theodore N. Vail, a Westinghouse or a Michael Pupin might open up for their less gifted brothers, new fields where their fellow workers could not in a hundred years have provided for themselves like opportunity...
Died. William Jaeger Poyer, four months, grandnephew of Thomas A. Edison; at Saranac Lake, N. Y., from a weak heart...