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Fired with the enthusiasm of his fetish, mechanics, Thomas Alva Edison recently refused to have his portrait painted on the grounds: "Everything in this world should be done by machinery and measurement," and anything made without the accuracy of mechanism is "not really very good". This was reported last week by Sir John Lavery, fashionable British painter who has done Mrs. Edison...
Enjoyed a momentous ride in Thomas A. Edison's four-year-old Ford at West Orange, N. J.; shouted loudly into Edison's deaf left ear: "What are you doing just now?" Edison made a sweeping gesture toward his laboratory with both arms: "Oh, any quantity of things." In an awed tone the Prince said: "Really...
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Southern Calif. Edison...
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