Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bigelow-Sanford. Inventor of the power loom was Erastus B. Bigelow who became head of what is now the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co. (Massachusetts), oldest U. S. carpet makers. Last week the oldest carpet makers absorbed the oldest rug manufacturers, Stephen Sanford & Sons (New York) founded...
...When they first married, Inventor Edison, then a telegrapher, taught his wife the Morse code. Now on her deaf husband's hand Mrs. Edison transmits unheard conversation by tapping dots and dashes...
...variations. Again a dinky, funnel-stacked, wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Nearby a lean, keen-eyed man stood beaming. He it was who had staged this performance. From afar he had brought the properties-the locomotive, cars and station.* Into the deaf inventor's ear he shouted welcome.† He was Friend Henry Ford. This was only...
...hard to say definitely where all the nicknames and epithets of athletes come from. Undoubtedly, the vast majority are coined by newspaper men, but to trace these monickers back to their original inventor would demand far more real labor and exacting research than the problem is worth. Alton Kimball ("Special Delivery", "Arlington Al", etc.) Marsters comes to the Stadium today. He is the hostile nicknamed star in the position which last Saturday was taken by C. K. ("Onward Christian") Cagle, the hula-hipped...
...Inventor Whittum entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute this fall. Last week he received a curious scholarship of $600 given annually by Henry Jones Fuller, Manhattan banker and Worcester trustee, to that member of the entering class who has shown greatest "Yankee Ingenuity." Should Inventor Whittum win another scholarship in his succeeding years at Worcester, from Trustee Fuller he will receive another...