Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Consult Professor Wolfson 10* Consult Dr. Pfeiffer 11* Consult Dr. Pfeiffer 14* Th. at 4 Sem. Mus. 3 17* Consult Professor Wolfson 18* Consult Dr. Thomson 19* Consult Professor Jewett SOCIAL ETHICS 1a Th. at 10 Emerson J 6* Th. at 9 Emerson A 8 Th. at 11 Emerson N 10 hf* Consult Tutors 20a Mon. at 7.30 p.m. Emerson L 25* Th. at 3 Emerson F SPANISH 2 Th. at 9 Sever 18 3* Fri. Oct. 1 at 3 (provisional hour) Widener Y 4 hf. Fri. Oct. 1, at 12 Sever 23 7 Th. at 11 Sever...
...NATURAL HISTORY-. Prof. J. Arthur Thomson-Putnam (3 vols. $18). Aims at scientific security, popular terms...
...that it could be used for telegraphy. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) applied it to telephony. Charles Francis Brush (1849-) invented the Brush electric arc light in 1878. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-) shortly was to develop a clanking generator and the incandescent lamp, and Elihu Thomson (1853-) his 500 and more industrial applications...
Electrician Thomson's industrial devices appealed to New Englander Coffin. He financed them, created the Thomson-Houston electric companies in this country and abroad. Nevertheless as late as 1892 electricity was little used industrially, although in telegraphy and telephony it had already become a necessity and in lighting an approved innovation...
...Coffin negotiated the merger of his Thomson-Houston Electric Co. of Lynn, Mass., with the Edison General Electric Co. of Schenectady, which J. P. Morgan had casually financed to manufacture power machinery. The new General Electric Co. which absorbed them (and, soon after, several other competitive and related firms) covered their entire field. Mr. Coffin, perspicacious of the industry's future, obtained control; made himself president. He was able to do this because he was in many respects as adroit a financier as Mr. Morgan and because Mr. Morgan never had a flair for young industries. Besides...