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Into the study of Thomas Alva Edison at Llewellyn Park, N. J. last week walked Lieut. Richard T. Aldworth, U. S. A. retired, tall, solemn, redheaded director of Newark Airport. Three hours later he departed with fingers cramped from scribbling 25 pages of answers to the deaf inventor's questions; also with the knowledge that Inventor Edison proposes to attack the problem of flying in dirty weather. As preface to the interview Inventor Edison, who had summoned Lieut. Aldworth, piloted him across the room, read aloud to him the words on a brass plaque hanging on the wall: "There...
When Inventor Edison saw and applauded the Pitcairn-Cierva autogiro at Newark last September many 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...
...Edison has never flown but "might try it sometime with an old-timer who would not stunt." For stunting he sees no justification, "can't believe that it is as necessary as it is dangerous. If I had my way it would be barred." Suspicious, he would not even enter the cabin of an amphibian at Newark Airport to examine the controls on the ground...
Awarded. Thomas Alva Edison, irreligious inventor, a gold medal; by Pope Pius XI; for his "contribution to the world through invention," and particularly for giving His Holiness a gold & ivory Edison dictating machine...
...mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen which often will resuscitate persons shocked by electricity, may also be helpful to pneumonia patients, announced New York Edison System Electric Light Co. last week. Dr. John Jay Wittmer, the company's medical chief, used the mixture (7% carbon dioxide, 93% oxygen) on 127 pneumonia cases. Of these 42 were definitely beyond recovery. Of the remaining 85, 70 were cured, 15 died. This relative success, thought the company, warranted informing the medical profession, which might experiment more widely...