Word: nela
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famed NELA (National Electric Light Association) last week convened at Atlantic City for its 52nd convention and exhibition. There able Matthew S. Sloan, head of New York Edison Co., said that the electric industry could well grant lower rates on current for domestic use, that such rates would result in greater use of vacuum cleaners, of electric irons, clothes washers and other household electric appliances, that rate reductions were always followed by pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought...
...RUSSIA, p. 10.) Died. Franklin S. Terry, 64, early (1889) maker of incandescent electric light bulbs; at Black Mountain near Asheville, N. C., of heart disease. He brought together a score of struggling makers of lamps 25 years ago and took them into the National Electric Light Association; developed Nela Park, Cleveland, into the "University of Light" whose diplomas are esteemed far and wide; instituted a sales system which puts dealers into such eager competition that they are practically rationed with lamps; made MAZDA a household word...
...Western Electric Co.† Both apply the far-reaching scientific discoveries relative to electricity to practical apparatus. Both have huge laboratories where many new electrical facts have been revealed, where many new applications have been devised. In fact General Electric has its own private, fully staffed university at Nela Park, Cleveland. For both firms the chief purpose is to sell electrical equipment. Western Electric specializes in the telephonic field. General Electric covers practically all the others. Last week the 1925 profits of both these companies were reported. General Electric profits available for dividends, after interest and all charges, amounted...
...Dartmouth, Columbia, became President of Dartmouth in 1909. Resigning in 1916 to become Professor of physics at Yale, his later years were punctuated by periods of ill health, but he held varied important positions in administration and research at Massachusetts Tech., the Carnegie Institution, the Bureau of Ordnances and Nela Park. The General Electric Company offered him absolute freedom and unsurpassed facilities for pure research; he returned there for his last years to avoid the strain of administrative work. Research was his home. He was one of the world's leading authorities on radioactivity, spectrum analysis, heat radiation of stars...
...Stratton succeeds Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, former President of Dartmouth and Director of pure science in the Nela Research Laboratories, who served as President of Tech for a few months in 1921 but was compelled to resign on account of ill health. In the interregnum the Institute has been administered by Elihu Thomson, famed inventor of electric welding, who is one of its trustees. M. I. T. has specialized in electrical engineering and is the chief training school for the general staff of the industry in America. Stratton will cause no break in the succession of electric experts...