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...guessed, because it was only his second visit to any airport, that he had little knowledge of aeronautics. But Thomas Edison, like Leonardo da Vinci, attacked the problem of aerodynamics early in his inventive career. About 1880 he devised an airplane engine powered by nitroglycerin. A roll of ordinary ticker-tape, turned into guncotton, was fed between two copper rolls into the cylinder and exploded electrically. But when the engine itself exploded and injured an assistant, Edison abandoned the project. In 1910 he secured a patent for a helicopter type, said to embody a number of tetrahedral (box) kites...
...Manhattan and proof room in Chicago.) While both Western Union and Postal Telegraph & Cable have been increasingly large Teletype customers, the Bell System has more than 10,000 in use, many for its own system, many over leased wires. Another teletype product is the new high-speed stock ticker. The company last year had $12,000,000 gross sales. The deal will be accomplished by a share-for-share exchange, involves $31,500,000. Only recently did Teletype change from its original name: Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Corp. Early in September the company's foreign business was sold to Creed...
Things Thrown. By the fireboat John Purroy Mitchel: eight sparkling plumes of harbor water. By Broadway: 70 tons of ticker tape, wastepaper. torn telephone books.* By other onlookers along the route from Manhattan's Battery to Washington: hats, flowers, confetti, kisses...
...telegram. So did Viscountess Astor of England and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois. Henry Waters Taft, head of the Army's New York City Advisory Board, helped Commander Booth dedicate a new building in Manhattan, the Centennial Memorial Temple, costing $2,500,000. Financial Broadway cast ticker tape on a parade of Salvationists. John Philip Sousa composed a march and led massed Army bands playing it. Not since the late King Edward VII invited her father, the late William Booth, Methodist founder of the Salvation Army, to his coronation (1902) and thereby made street-corner soul-saving...
...Manhattan, Bloomingdale Bros. proudly supervised the laying of a cornerstone for their new store. Enclosed in the cornerstone were: a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth; a roll of ticker-tape; a horseshoe; a pair of eyeglasses; some sheet music; a telephotograph of Charles A. Lindbergh and wife; a wedding ring; several hundred flower seeds; a copy of the Congressional Record; a subway strap; some newspapers; a forecast of the future by Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld...