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...company which now bears his name, came to light. In 1869, when only 23 years old, Westinghouse patented his air brake for stopping trains - now standard equipment for railways all over the world. The young inventor soon became fascinated by the possibilities of electricity, as developed by Bell, Edison and others. In 1880 he founded the Westinghouse Machine Co. for the manufacture of high speed engines to drive dynamos for arc lighting. He controlled the Union Switch and Signal Co., which manufactured railway equipment. In 1880 he met William Stanley, who had just invented a self-regulating dynamo for lighting...
Hutchison is an electrical engineer, southern by birth and training. Since 1910 he has been associated with Thomas A. Edison; for several years he was chief engineer of the Edison Laboratories. In 1917 he formed the Miller Reese Hutchison Corporation to market his own inventions and to distribute the Edison storage battery under an agreement with Mr. Edison. During the War he gave his entire time to naval engineering work for the Government. He is the owner of more than 600 patents and is internationally known in engineering circles. His offices are on the 51st (top) floor of the Woolworth...
JOSEPH HENRY, inventor of the electromagnet, whose likeness was unveiled by Thomas A. Edison...
...lived and wrote in the ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Wandville, Normandy. Except for "an original look expressing his inner field of serene vision," he is in appearance a prosperous, healthy burgher of Ghent. Tall, thickset, he boxes, cycles, shoots, rows. He has been variously called "the Edison of the immaterial world" and "the Belgian Shakespeare...
Thomas A. Edison: "At a luncheon given by the cinema industry in my honor, I danced a jig, jokingly accounted for my capers by saying I had monkey glands. Besieged by literal-minded reporters, I explained that there was no literal truth in my remark...