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Mr. Samuel Insull, who afterward became private secretary to Mr.
Insull has described how Edison was to be found there trying to lead the life of a man of affairs in the conventional garb of polite society, instead of pursuing inventions and researches in his laboratory. But the disagreeable ordeal could not be dodged.
Insull for a graphic sketch of Edison at this period, and of the conditions under which work was done and progress was made: "I do not think I had any understanding with Edison when I first went with him as to my duties. I did whatever he told me, and looked after all kinds of affairs, from buying his clothes to financing his business.
"A telegram!" said Miss Insull. "The postmaster brought it down himself " "What? Mr. Derry?" asked Samuel, opening the telegram with an affectation of majesty. "Yes. He said it was too late for delivery by rights. But as it seemed very important ..." Samuel scanned it and nodded gravely; then gave it to his wife. Tears came into her eyes.
Edison, and a leader in the development of American electrical manufacturing and the central-station art, was also in close touch with the London situation thus depicted, being at the time private secretary to Colonel Gouraud, and acting for the first half hour as the amateur telephone operator in the first experimental exchange erected in Europe. "I remember another incident," says Mr. Insull.
Sam wanted ME to go!" He laughed again, in the faces of the horrified and angry women. "I'm surprised at you, Mr. Critchlow! I really am!" Constance exclaimed. And the assistants inarticulately supported her with vague sounds. Miss Insull got up and poked the stove.
He unceremoniously let himself out by the side door, and passed with wavy apron round the corner of King Street into the Square and so to his own shop, which ignored the Thursday half-holiday. Miss Insull left soon afterwards. Constance's pride urged her to refuse the offer. But in truth her sole objection to it was that she had not thought of the scheme herself.
The machine would be useful with one or more of these sub-machines omitted, and each machine may be capable of performing its own individual results alone or in other associations. Pioneership of invention might apply to the main machine, or to the sub-machines, or even to the sub-organization within the sub-machines. By SAMUEL INSULL.
Insull, in speaking of this period, says: "When it was found difficult to push the central-station business owing to the lack of confidence in its financial success, Edison decided to go into the business of promoting and constructing central-station plants, and he formed what was known as the Thomas A. Edison Construction Department, which he put me in charge of.
Yet, ere the fields of the county were first covered with snow that season, only one sign survived of the devastating revolution, and that was a loose sheet of wall-paper that had been too soon pasted on to new plaster and would not stick. Maria Insull was Maria Critchlow. Constance had been out into the Square and seen the altered sign, and seen Mrs.
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