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Died. Frederick P. Ott, 76, for 52 years aide to the late Thomas Alva Edison; in West Orange, N. J. He collaborated in inventing the electric light, used snuff for sneezes recorded on the first motion picture film...
Masonite was not named for the benefit of the building trade but for the inventor of the basic processes-William Horatio Mason. A broad-shouldered, white-haired Virginia-born engineer who spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post...
...Stuttgart that Robert Bosch first set himself up as a maker of magnetos with little capital except his ingenuity and training, part of which was gained in a short turn in the U. S. in Edison's laboratories. In early days the Bosch magneto was used on stationary internal combustion engines, was not adapted to an automobile until 1896. And it was not until Bosch began to make a high-tension magneto with high-tension spark plugs- a simplified ignition system-that Bosch became an international name. By 1912 he had made 1,000,000 magnetos...
Another tribute was paid to the memory of Charles W. Eliot when a section of the International Library in the Peace Memorial of Oglethorpe University in Georgia was dedicated to Harvard's former president. Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Thomas A. Edison have been similarly honored...
With such a potential guest list, preparations were on a grand scale. Congress appropriated $75,000, the Edison Electric Institute (utility trade association) put up $75,000 more, the National Electrical Manufacturers $25,000. Many a utility man contributed with his fingers crossed, because the New Deal was an enthusiastic booster for the conference. Secretary of the Interior Ickes headed the American National Committee while the Executive Committee was chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke. New Deal officials soothed timid power men with promises that the meetings would be kept free of political propaganda. Nevertheless, most...