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Died. Professor Walter Francis Reid, 81, inventor of smokeless powder, onetime (1910) president of the Society of Chemical Industry, research chemist (linoleum, cement, silver on backs of mirrors); of "extreme debility;" in Kingston. Surrey, England. A recluse for the last two years, Professor Reid lived in a cold, decaying mansion on milk and well-water, saw no one, was found in a stupor, his hair straggling to his shoulders, his beard to his waist...
Photostatic copies of the original papers reveal that Edison, as a struggling young inventor, signed over half rights in all his future inventions in return for $40 each. Years later the holder of this contract entered suit against Edison for $30.000. After a short time the plaintiff retained Benjamin F. Butler, Civil War general and one-time presidential candidate, who made a dramatic entrance into the case by immediately raising the amount of the suit to $230,000. The case was finally settled out of court at the figure...
Died. Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, 73, inventor of the Lewis machine gun of which more than 100,000 were used by the Allies in the War; in a railroad station near his Montclair, N. J. home; of heart disease...
...children (save for $28,000 to three old employes). The children of his first marriage (to Mary G. Stilwell, died 1884) are Mrs. Marion Estelle Edison Oser of Norwalk. Conn., relict of a German officer; Thomas Alva Edison Jr., consulting engineer to Edison industries; William Leslie Edison, 53, inventor, of Wilmington, Del. The children of Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, who is mentioned in the will as having been "adequately provided for," are Charles Edison, 41, president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Mrs. John Eyre Sloane of Llewellyn Park, N. J.; and Theodore M. Edison. 35, research chief in his father...
...great was his prestige that when, in 1917 he became head of an advisory board of civilian inventors to meet conditions of warfare on land and sea, it was confidently expected that he would find a way rendering enemy submarines harmless. Inventor Edison was still pondering ways to combat submarines when the war ended...