Collier's new encyclopedia - a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps (1921) (14774707221)

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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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EDMUND, ST. 469 EDUCATION all the world as one of the greatest in-ventors of the 19th century. Among hismore important inventions may be namedthe phonograph, a telephone for long dis-tance transmission, a system of duplextelegraphy (vihich he subsequently de-veloped into quadruplex and sextuplextransmission), the carbon telephonetransmitter, the microtasimeter, the aero-phone, megaphone, the incandescent elec-tric lamp, the kinetoscope, and a storagebattery for street railway cars and auto-mobiles. In 1913 by synchronizing thephonograph and kinetoscope he producedtalking moving pictures; but the inven-tion is still imperfect. In 1878 he wasmade Chevalier of the Legion of Honorby the French Government, a commanderof the Legion in 1889, and was the re-cipient of the insignia of a grand officerof the Crown of Italy bestowed the sameyear by King Humbert. EDMUND, ST., King of the EastAngles, began to reign in 855; was re-vered by his subjects for his justice andpiety. In 870 his kingdom wa