Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven years ago the general manager of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.'s electric storage battery factory, George E. Stringfellow. yelled into Edison's less deaf ear: "Mr. Edison, would you be willing to continue as consultant for the battery company after you passed to the Great Beyond." Said Edison: "You are crazy." Shouted Stringfellow: ''It might work. You invented this battery, and in your mind there is information about it that no one else has. Will you let the stall give you written questions about the battery every Saturday afternoon before you go home? You could...
...Edison did this for two years. General Manager Stringfellow kept the memoranda in a black loose-leaf notebook...
Died. William Leslie Edison, 58, inventor, second of Thomas Alva Edison's three children by his first wife;* in Wilmington...
...Still living are Thomas Alva Edison's second wife and their three children; one daughter by his first wife...
...idea of using movies in classrooms is as old as the movies themselves. Thomas Alva Edison thought that the movies would be more important as an educational than as an entertainment medium. Nevertheless, of the 10,000 "educational" films now catalogued and available in the U. S. the overwhelming majority are dull, amateurish, or technically obsolete. Of the two biggest professional producers. Eastman Kodak Co. has manufactured since 1926 some 200 silent films on historical and scientific subjects, Electrical Research Products Inc. a scanty 40 sound films. Most Hollywood producers think that the effective market is too small for profit...