Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, has presented Cornell University with a complete electric light plant...
Probably few of the students at Harvard are aware of the fact that not far from here is an establishment which might, did the faculty so will it, make an entire change in our life and comforts. About four months ago a German inventor, Frederick Schaefer, opened a factory in Cambridgeport for the purpose of building electrical dynamos, lamps, and all the other necessities for electric lighting, after models which he had himself invented. Many improvements over the old dynamos and lamps have been made, especially in the lamps, the filaments of which are made of a silk thread, instead...
...dynamos are also considerably modified, thought the differences are not evident to the untrained eye, as in the case of the lamps. The inventor claims for these dynamos a capacity of fifteen or more lamps per horse power against eight or ten by all other systems. But the great interest to the public at large, and to Harvard students in particular, lies in the fact that these new machines can be constructed so cheaply as to be no more expensive than gas, so that there is no reason why we should not all have the electric lights in our rooms...
...method of determining the vibrations of tuning forks will be named after its inventor, the "Pulsford" method...
...universal language, "Volapuk," has already found a rival in a language equally new, and prospectively universal, called "Pasilingua." Its inventor (who is a German) has recognized that no existing language could serve the purpose of universality, and has accordingly devised a new tongue which shall suit the mouths of all men English is acknowledged to be the dominant principle; but how far its modification is necessary may be seen from the following verse of St. Matthew, ii, 3: Et quando ils partitefer schire, to angelo deode apparifer Fosephobi in una trauma, sagano: Arisire, takare ton jungon childon et tom matren...