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recollection of firot seeing an olectrio lighted street goes back to London^ when towards the end of 1878, the Thames embankment was first lighted by aro lamps, a yontion oalled JablooWcoff candles» Russian in- While that exhibition was going on in Europe there were a number of very able engineers and inventors engaged in the development of the electrical industry here in this country. Brush, Elihu Thomson, Edwin J. Houston, George Weston, Frank J. Sprague, and many others, represented the engineering intellect which was devoted to the development of electrical industry in this country, headed, especially by the work and invention of Mr. Thomas A. Edison, who is entitled to the credit of devising the electrioal distribution system as it is understood today. I have mentioned just a few names connected with engineering development, but I might go on all evening in speaking of the personal work of various men; but time will not permit. There is Jist one man, however, whom it is fitting to refer ot - Mr. Marooni - and his marvelous invention of the wireless telegraph, which has practically annihilated space. How have these accomplishments of the world's inventors and engineers benefited civilization? Great systems of transportation have been created ashore and great vessels afloat, connecting the several continents which border the great oceans of the globe. Surely un abridge- ment of* 4iatar.cf>, as Lord Maoaulley put it, has boon achieve 10
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