| Show Edison Signifies Hard Work Not Science By Dy NEA KEA Service BROOKFIELD CENTER Conn Feb 11 11 This man Edison com Edison corn Ing Ing centuries will win estimate him where the century only adores And they will place him not among s at all but among 41 ti tithe the gre great t prag Inventors or of hIs history tor y says BayS George S Bryan Dran author of the I lat t est cst Edison blo- blo bio blo biography graph graph graphy No man has h s teen been more mss mis-J mis represented to togy the public or more morn blindly wor- wor worshipped y wor-y shipped Bryan Bron Bryan Bryan- believes believe No man manG manG manG G S Bryan Brynn m man n has been the victim of ol so mAny wild fantastic tales and mis- mis mis misconceptions conceptions Once the Ue mists of ot superstition have been dispelled the world will Ill see soe Its hero as he Is-a Is Is a man of marvelous Inventive genius who never gave a moments moment's thought or work to pure science In his life lite NO SCIENTIST Tho ways was of o the tho scientist are arent nt not Edison's was wa's ways says Bryan Dryan lie would never follow tollow trails Into truth Unless ho he could see a goal of practical utility ahead lie He has spent no great amounts of money on abstract Investigation developed no great scientists In his incomparable laboratory He lie cares nothing about truths that cannot bo be made to earn their own living In a sense common world He places invention above science and says sas so GO I am a a good workman he has hag often orten said I turn out perfect products products I dont don't fool around with Ith a abstractions An And there lies the secret of o his present standing When he thought the Edison storage battery Imperfect he with With- Withdrew withdrew drew drow It from the market and shut shutdown shutdown shutdown down his factory until he could coull locate lo- lo locate lo locate cate the trouble and make a new desIgn DROPPED RADIO MOVIE MOVIE On On the other hand Edison has dropped many a successful prod prod- product product product because ho he could see no com com- commercial commercial mercial value In It He has made mado mistakes In dropping some of them notably the motion picture camera which seemed so useless to him that he ho never bothered to In- In Invent Invent In Invent vent a projecting machine Then there was the radio which ho he dropped after his fIrst successful experiments because ho he had no faith In Its commercial val val- value val value u ue And the X-ray X machine which he gave up because of Its limited markEt US fc I Edison has lIas never been good at mathematics His Ills one university university- university trained trained partner Francis Upton now dead dad supplied all mathematics for lor the work The famous sixth sense wIth which Edison is credited Is la an- an another an another other figment of the Imagination Bryan believes VERY VEni- PAINSTAKING Mr Edison Is a keenly Intel Intel- Intelligent Intelligent Intelligent man with Inexhaustible en- en energy en energy ergy whom no obstacles can stop lie arrives at results by Indefatigable Indefatigable able pains paIne In his work on the storage battery batter he made mado and rec- rec recorded recorded rec recorded experiments before succeeding It If the world has haa given EdIson credit for tor more genius than he has 38 It has also given him credit for less les honesty Many rumors have been In fn circulation that ho be used the Ideas of his assistants without proper payment Ss Is Is Indefensible Indefensible Indefensible This says gays Bryan Dryan sible calumny Every ery man who has haa worked with Ith Edison agrees agres that he and ho alone Is responsible for 99 3 per cent of or all Inventions the factories produce There can never be another Edison He lie came with all his en- en en energy orgy ergy and brilliance at a time when America was ready for tor him when the new wealth after the tho Civil War demanded Industrial outlet His name on a product Is like sterling on silver sll It If he does not stand with Kel Kel- Kelvin Kelvin vin and Newton he stands atone alone alone I the Ideal workman of ot the ages |
