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Eleven years ago the general manager of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.'s electric storage battery factory, George E. Stringfellow. yelled into Edison's less deaf ear: "Mr. Edison, would you be willing to continue as consultant for the battery company after you passed to the Great Beyond." Said Edison: "You are crazy." Shouted Stringfellow: ''It might work. You invented this battery, and in your mind there is information about it that no one else has. Will you let the stall give you written questions about the battery every Saturday afternoon before you go home? You could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prescient Edison | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Edison did this for two years. General Manager Stringfellow kept the memoranda in a black loose-leaf notebook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prescient Edison | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Recently Mr. Stringfellow and his fellow executives were troubled. The Edison battery functions because, when iron oxide and nickel hydrate (suitably packed in a battery box) are charged with electricity, a chemical reaction is set up which enables the battery to discharge itself in any vehicle or spot where its pent-up energy may be needed. The iron used in the batteries comes from Sweden because Swedish iron is unusually free from impurities, but traces of nickel were found however in a $40,000 shipment of Swedish iron which recently reached the Edison factory at West Orange. Dared the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prescient Edison | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...Visitors & Governors of little St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. That unconventional gesture was President Hutchins' way of showing that he is a good loser. For St. John's had just reached to take from under his nose, in the persons of President-elect Stringfellow Barr and Dean-elect Scott Buchanan, two educators whom Chicago drafted last year from the University of Virginia to help Educator Hutchins with his projected revival of the traditional liberal arts college course. Now Educator Hutchins was willing to help Educators Barr and Buchanan with their projected revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: St. John's Revival | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...Stringfellow Barr. a stocky, redheaded, well-dressed intellectual who was long one of the University of Virginia's most popular lecturers but is best known as editor of the Virginia Quarterly, St. John's should prove a stimulating challenge. By last week President-elect Barr had rounded up four bright young faculty-men from Chicago and one from Oxford, where he once studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Barr-Hutchins liberal arts ideal Educator Hutchins described before sailing for a European vacation last week: "St. John's is an excellent place to try out the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: St. John's Revival | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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