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Some time ago Congress authorized the Patent Office to turn over models of old inventions to the Smithsonian Institution and give away or destroy all models not wanted by the museum. More than 2,000 requests for old models have been made. The longest request was from Thomas A. Edison-five closely typed pages listing all his early inventions. Henry Ford made a blanket request for all mechanical engineering devices not wanted by the Government...
Through arrangements made by Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company, Graham MacNamee of Station WEAF in New York will report the game from his glass house on top of the Palmer Stadium. His report will be transmitted from the microphone in New York direct to Station WEEI, the Boston Edison Company, starting a few minutes before the referee's whistle at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon...
...program tomorrow evening, with the first of a series of 15-minute radio talks on various astronomical subjects. Twenty-two of these talks, by nine members of the Observatory staff, are planned for Tuesday and Thursday evenings during the next three months, to be broadcast from Station WEEI, the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, of Boston...
...Patchell is one of the leading engineers of the country. Besides being President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, one of the highest honors which can be conferred upon an engineer of the United States, he is well-known as consulting engineer to several of the largest of the Edison companies...
There was at the dinner, one Richard Hutchinson. Him Mr. Edison shook warmly by the hand, joined in reminiscent laughter. It was years ago, when Edison was a verdant cub on the telegraph desk of a Boston newspaper, that he was set by his overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back...