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...Virginia speech was delivered a few hours after President Coolidge had examined the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland, which was shown to him and Mrs. Coolidge at the White House by Phonograph Tycoon Eldridge Johnson, the present owner...
Easily classified were the guests of the educators and the butchers. Henry Ford was first of cheap motorcar makers; Thomas Alva Edison was first to perfect the phonograph, the incandescent lamp and many another U. S. industrial staple. In photography, none outranks Rochester's music-loving George Eastman. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis is 78, is dean of newspaper and magazine publishers. How long is their service to science and industry is indicated by the average of their ages-74. Younger are the two historic exponents of commercial aviation, youngest of great industries. Orville Wright, at 57, is seven years...
Edison Radio. Thomas Alva Edison, who made the phonograph practical, for long would have nothing to do with radio because of static. His son Charles recently persuaded him to turn his wits to the radio. Result: a set to be put on the market next week. It contains two receivers, one for super-selectivity to get local stations exclusively, the other for sensitivity to pick up distant stations. Their machine also contains a phonograph...
...project is attractive: 100,000 U. S. churches and other religious institutions are probable customers. Ministers and laymen have been buying stock in the Religious Film Trust. Last week the Trust had thus enough funds to warrant a contract with the Acoustics Products Co., affiliation of the Sonora Phonograph...
...results, in the form of phonograph records, will be put on sale in September at $1 each. Dr. Greet expects to make 14 records by December, including those of a Manhattan truckdriver, a Tennessee mountaineer, a pure Philadelphian. Eventually, he hopes to make 50 records...