Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radio Lamp Lighters. Ordinarily street electric lamps are turned on and off in groups, by men throwing switches in scattered control stations in various parts of the community. Those control stations are expensive to maintain. To replace the men and stations Westinghouse developed a radio device, which Boston Edison Co. began to use last week on a circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts...
Another addition to the Engineering School faculty is Professor Bery, who has been in the Detroit Edison Company; a professor at Cornell, and editor of "Power". Professor H. N. Davis '06, whom Professor Bery succeeds, is now president of Stevens Institute...
Elected. Matthew Scott Sloan, 47, president of the Brooklyn Edison Co.; to be president of the New York Edison Co., succeeding Nicholas Frederic Brady (resigned...
...Thomas Edison who is very hard of hearing, once declared that in 100 years all people would be deaf. Of course he was exaggerating. Yet it is certain that hearing defects have been increasing. In England one-third of the population, it is estimated, cannot hear perfectly. Doctors are investigating. One important cause that they blame is city noises. The cacophony injures the auditory nerves, the brain, the whole nervous system...
...will the influence of International Paper Co. stop with this sizeable unit. Also forecast, last week, was a further pool of power resources in New England. Only the approval of directors was lacking to consummate a combine between New England Power and Edison Electric Illuminating Co., a utility company serving Boston and 37 other cities and towns, reaching 1,265,000 individual consumers. Through this pool, the new Edison-New England Power combine ranks as one of the chief links of the intricately chained U.S. utilities "trusts," target of many a bitter political attack. And the controlling force...