Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father, Thomas Alva Edison, will remain at his rubber experiments in Fort Myers, Fla., for the actual anniversary does not come until Oct. 21 and there are many things which Mr. Edison, aged 82, wants to crowd into his remaining years...
...will be darkened at a concerted moment, and then brightened slowly to a crescendo of light such as they have seen never before. That will be the high moment of the Golden Jubilee. The dimming of the lights will have been signaled by a push-buttom from Inventor Edison seated once more in his old time laboratory, every stone and splinter of which has been moved from Menlo Park, N. J., to Dearborn, Mich...
Beginning next week and lasting all summer and autumn will be an open season for the publication and republication of Edison biography, anecdotes, photographs. Again and again will be told the U. S. folk-legend of the newsboy, born in Milan, Ohio, who built a great fame out of such invisibilities as electrical impulses, sound waves, ether vibrations...
Pending the full blaze of the Golden Jubilee, retrospective minds returned to years between the first spark of Edisonian genius and the visible glow of its social application. Between laboratory and layman stand innumerable middlemen, not the least important of whom are usually a few bankers. Inventor Edison at 35 was by no means financially ignorant. He understood that money, though social rather than "natural," is a force not unlike electricity, with sources and laws of its own. A respecter of such forces, he turned to financial experts in 1882, when it was time to incorporate the first Edison Electric...
Newspaper readers remarked last week the nearly simultaneous announcements of a "Genius School" at Johns Hopkins University and a "Genius Hunt'' at the Edison laboratories in West Orange, N. J. Mr. Edison, who is in Fort Myer, Fla., and has often been called a genius, did not deny that genius was what he was hunting. But from Johns Hopkins went a protest to the press: "Please note that we have not used the word 'genius' once in our plan. We would appreciate it if you would avoid the use of this word, since it is likely...