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...communication; the manufacture of chemicals, engines, machines and innumerable commodities; railway, highway and water transportation; and the construction and operation of numerous works for the public safety and welfare. These enterprises require many kinds of talent in a great variety of duties, such as the planner, the builder, the inventor, the scientific investigator and the executive, requiring a knowledge of men and things as well as a training in science...
...utilities in the West -many of them grown up out of Mr. Edison's inventions -President of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and in general a magnate of the Middle West. He, with others-aids and witnesses of wholesale changes wrought by Edison inventions-did honor to the inventor.' Through it all a big white head nodded modest appreciation, a pair of bright blue eyes twinkled with pleasure...
...assemblage, no recital of Inventor Edison's history was needful. Too well known was the story of the Ohio youth inept at books, fond of dabbling with chemicals, both greengrocer and publisher in his teens, boxed on the ears (and deafened for life) by a furious conductor because a stick of phosphorus started a fire in the mail car in which he traveled with his printing office and chemicals (he was selling magazines on trains at the time and had a laboratory in one end of the mail car), and later of the young telegraph operator with the itch...
...Inventor Edison, no college graduate, frequently deprecates the value of a college education. -In the world there are approximately 47,000 cinema houses...
Married. Theodore M. Edison, son of Inventor Thomas A. Edison, to Miss Anna M. Osterhout, daughter of Prof. Winthrop J. V. Osterhout, Professor of Botany at Harvard University; in the Appleton Chapel at Harvard...