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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spain, 1851, 2 reals, blue (error...
Baden, 1851, 9 kr. green (error...
...Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Cos. were merged to form General Electric Co. Beginning research for them at Lynn, Steinmetz, proudly, silently, lived four weeks without salary until the payroll error responsible was detected, righted. Always fearful of shock, his work was with Alternating Current, whose danger the Direct Current interests then so ably played up in press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors...
Issue of July 29 contains a rather grating error on p. 21 second line under the third mention of the name STIMMING. "Mein herren"' is very poor. It should be "Meine Herren." Nouns are always capitalized no matter where they occur. "Mein" is singular but must agree with the plural of the modified noun in number, "Herren." You are giving yourself repeated boxes on the ears with such expressions...
...alumnus of the University of North Carolina, seeing the reference in your July 29 issue to North Carolina's Governor O. Max Gardner, wrote me about setting you straight. The point in error was that Max Gardner played football at State College. You were right; he did. But the alumnus is also right; Governor Max also played football at the University. Your error, then, was one of omission...