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Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 74, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime assistant to Thomas A. Edison, codiscoverer of the radio-reflecting region of electrified air called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer; the Mascart Medal, awarded every three years by the Societe Franchise des Electriciens: for contributions to pure science and for services on international commit tees whose efforts culminated last sum mer in the adoption of the centimetre-gram-second system of units by the Inter national Electrotechnical Commission. First U. S. scientist to receive the Mascart Medal, venerable Dr. Kennelly hoped its bestowal...
...Manhattan, the President stopped at Newark to sit in a meeting of New Jersey's National Emergency Council presided over by Charles Edison, son of the late great inventor. Said the President in an informal speech: "I want to say just one word about the usefulness of what we are doing. There is a grand word that is going around, 'Boondoggling.' It is a pretty good word. If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this Depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come...
...years ago. Europe assumes that such was their achievement, ignoring Thomas Alva Edison. Invincibly bourgeois and perfectly satisfied with their large business in making still films and plates, the Brothers Lumière left the invention of the cinema to stew for years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early...
Married. Mina Miller Edison, 69, widow (second wife) of Thomas Alva Edison, daughter of the late Co-Founder Lewis Miller of the Chautauqua Institution (TIME, Jan. i. 1934); and Edward E. Hughes, 73, retired lawyer and steelmaker of Franklin, Pa.; in Chautauqua...
...President George A. Hughes of Chicago's Edison General Electric Appliance Co., which just electrified the White House kitchen, reported business 100% better, denied that the New Deal was in any way responsible, predicted a Roosevelt defeat in the 1936 campaign...