Word: edisonizing
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...cultural Bolshevist No 1." Grosz hated Germany, and he yearned to live in the U.S. His sketchbooks were filled with dreamy portraits of himself as a cowboy or an Indian chief, his room plastered with U.S. posters on which he inscribed mythical greetings to himself from Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller...
...mine to be cleaned, sorted and conveyed to hoppers for shipping, he thinks he can cut his production costs well below those of most other mines. He plans to cut transportation costs by shipping in barges. He already has a big market; fast-expanding Commonwealth Edison Co. in Chicago will take half his output. For Crown, the whole enterprise was no more chancy than many of the other shrewdly calculated risks he has taken...
...Magic Box, William Friese-Greene becomes, in your words, "British cinema's pioneer" (which over here means that he introduced cinema to Britain); and The Magic Box "shows . . . his development of Britain's first practical movie camera in 1889, at about the same time that Thomas Edison in the U.S. and Louis Le Prince in France were perfecting their cameras...
...record, Edison's patent for a kinetoscopic camera was issued on Aug. 24, 1891, Friese-Greene's on June...
...Both Friese-Greene and Edison, working independently, invented and patented their own versions of the early movie camera; later, both became involved in a patent suit. In 1910 the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Edison's claim, decided that Friese-Greene got there first...