Word: watson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasions for which Mr. Garner puts on a white tie and stays up after 9:30 p. m.). the President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a musicale at which several piano solos were rendered by Madame Frances Nash. Around the White House, Mme Nash is better known as Mrs. Watson, wife of Col. Edwin M. Watson, the President's military aide...
HARVARD NEWTON HIGH Nesmith, l.w. r.w., MacLeod Mechem, c. c., McCutcheon Pope, r.w. l.w., Page Allen, l.d. r.d., Castold Hicks, r.d. l.d., Elliott Watson, g. g., Woodward...
Thomas Augustus Watson was a livery stableman's son, a shy boy who roamed the woods declaiming poems to trees and stones. He got a job in a machine shop where young inventors brought their work. His interest in voice culture brought him to the attention of Bell, who was teaching deaf-mutes in a Boston school. At the time Bell was tinkering with a "harmonic telegraph" by which he hoped to send several messages at once over the same wire.* The two men accidentally discovered that the tones and overtones of a vibrating transmitter reed could be carried...
...years following that dramatic first success, Watson toiled away in Boston, made improvements, took out patents, kept the books, while Bell went off on lecture tours to raise money. As a climax Lecturer Bell would let his audiences hear Watson singing "Do Not Trust Him, Gentle Lady" over the telephone. While Bell was abroad Watson took charge of their enterprises at home. In 1881 he retired, hungry for new experiences. He tried farming, married, became interested in marine motors. A one-room shop with two helpers grew into the Fore River Ship & Engine Co. which employed 4.000 men and built...
Died. Thomas Augustus Watson, So, manufacturer of the first telephone; of heart failure; in St. Petersburg...