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Inventor Thomas A. Edison lately said in effect: "Society needs no more inventions for a while. It has not caught up with Science as things stand now." But Inventor Edison quickly denied that, such being the case, he would stop work (TIME, Feb. 22). And last week the National Academy of Sciences announced that no one is going to stop work, that work is just going to begin. With the help of Secretary of Commerce Hoover it is going to establish a fund of 20 millions to rescue genius from "conditions that stifle independent research." It has consulted 30 college...
Kites. In Manhattan, Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, for 16 years chief engineer of Thomas Alva Edison, suggested that all steamships carry kites for rescue work in seas too heavy for lifeboats and Lyle (rope-shooting) guns. The kite could be flown over the distressed ship, line, rope and finally a heavy cable being attached to its string. The cable would drag in the water, be towed to its destination. Then the breeches buoy could be used...
...sprang back with a sharp cry. Workers of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. were called. They found that a short-circuited conduit had given the puddle a charge of 120 volts...
...group of those favoring the adoption of the metric system is wide and notable. It includes among scientists Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank and Glenn H. Curtiss. It includes Leonard Wood and Admiral Sims. It includes Elihu Root, John Barton Payne, Newton D. Baker and William G. McAdoo. It included John Hays Hammond and Samuel Vauclain. It includes Arthur Brisbane and Dr. Frank Crane, and includes General Pershing, who saw the A. E. F. acquire the use of it in France and found it both convenient and not too hard to learn. Its proponents argue for it that no country...
...Edison. In Manhattan, the Edison Pioneers celebrated with a dinner the 79th birth anniversary of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Mr. Edison basked in the sun at Fort Myers, Fla., but sent them a telegram: "Many thanks. Feeling fine. Weather beautiful. Coconuts are dropping all over the place. Wish you were here." To newspapermen of whom he entertained two large parties during the day, he said: "I couldn't retire. Just like trying to stop smoking cigarets. . . . Inventions are away ahead of the people...