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...American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers have extended an invitation to all Engineering students to join them in an excursion to the L Street Power Station of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company this afternoon. This is a turbo-generator plant of modern design, and includes two of the latest type of 30,000 K.V.A. Turbo-Units. It is expected that one of them will be opened for inspection. The station is on L sereet and Summer Street Extension and may be reached by street car from the South Station...
...Edison has repeatedly maintained that his success is principally the result of perseverance, and he declares that genius is "one-tenth inspiration and nineteenths perspiration." This view seems to be logical, but at the same time in direct contradiction to the theory that President Lowell has so often expounded. The latter declares that the world needs men who have the imagination to find new problems, and emphatically not the kind of men who can automatically solve any problem that is presented to them...
...inefficiency. While this unfortunate quality can never be entirely eradicated from democratic systems, yet the calling into service of real experts should so diminish it as to make this fault negligible. The Naval Advisory Board is accomplishing what a body of mere seamen cannot do, for such men as Edison in dealing with perplexing questions have a breadth of vision which no admiral could ever possess...
...stealth and at the expense of his health. Nor do we provide many incentives for that kind of work. The public reward and recognition extended to technologic promoters is out of all proportion to that extended to scientific achievement itself-witness the millions of people who have heard of Edison but not of Theobald Smith, or who think that Marconi invented wireless telegraphy. Probably thousands of Yale men have not heard of Willard Gibbs, one of the most creative minds in nineteenth century science, whose work at New Haven was possible largely because he was a man of means...
...University of Salerno in Roman days declared; "To sleep seven hours is enough for either a young man or an old one." In more modern times we have the famous dictum of Napoleon: four hours sleep for a man, five for a woman and six for a fool. Thomas Edison believes we shall have time enough to sleep when...