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Word: lodygin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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That's a fine article on the Russian scientists [June 2]-particularly to me, since it refers to my father, A. N. Lodygin [producer of the "Russian sun"-Russia's first electric light]. Although he never completed his citizenship, he was devoted to the U.S. His incandescent lamp foreign patents led the Westinghouse Co. to invite him to Pittsburgh in the '90s. My father always said that he had developed the lamp as an incidental part of his heavier-than-air flying machine, which occupied much of his thought. He died in Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...Marxism), and idealism (a catch-all indictment) became the cardinal sins. The era of "fatherland science" had begun. By official decree, Russia claimed so many retroactive scientific "firsts" that its impressive past was discredited by exaggeration: Polzunov was declared the builder of the first steam engine; A. N. Lodygin, producer of the "Russian Sun," the first electric light; and Mozhaisky invented the airplane "20 years before the brothers Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Brahmins of Redland | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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