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Honored. Dr. Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University: with the John Fritz gold medal, top U. S. engineering award: *for his achievements as "scientist, engineer, author and inventor of the tuning of oscillating circuits and the loading of telephone circuits by inductance coils...
...Memphis, he thought up his first invention?a telegraphic repeater. Jealous, the manager of the Memphis office discharged Inventor Edison. Edison, because he had no money, walked back to Louisville...
...artist in essentials, Inventor Edison was absentminded, often unkempt, given to laconic epigrams, careless about money. Having accepted "thirty thousand" for a new kind of transmitter bought by a British company, he was astonished at being paid in pounds, not dollars. He afterward received this letter from George Bernard Shaw: "I have the honor, sir, to inform you that you have now destroyed all the privacy in Great Britain...
...Inventor Banker's company still makes windshields, but mostly for replacements since the newer one-piece windshield is now generally used. He is at present working on non-shatterable glass for doors and windshields. As is true of many a man in the motor industry, Inventor Banker was once a famed bicycle racer. Henry Ford never did like Bankers...
Half a century ago, an unknown inventor made a strange machine called the phonograph, and an amazed world of horse-cars and gas-lights heard itself speak. At once, this world acclaimed him the Great Wizard, and through ensuing years it watched with Elizabethan enthusiasm for his magical machines as one after another they emerged from Menlo Park. Either outright or in part, he gave to the seventies the telephone microphone, the phonograph, and the incandescent electric light; to the eighties, the trolley car and the dynamo; and to the 'nineties, the cinema. With the turn of the century...